Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 2, 1866
  The Reading [Pa.] Times has the following: “Bear’ Miller, an old hunter, 92 years of age, was in this city on Monday morning, having walked from Maidencreek, a distance of twelve miles. He is a resident of Huntingdon county. He wears a beard about a foot long and as white as snow. He has […]
Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 25, 1860
    The Sioux Indians, of Minnesota, have killed over 2,000 deer, 10,000 muskrat, and 3,000 otter, during the fall and winter.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, January 20, 1890
A Massachusetts Sportsman Nearly Killed While Hunting in Maine. Â Â Â Â Boston, Mass., Jan.-19.-Alanson Haslam, a prominent Waltham sportsman, has just had a terrible experience with a buck which he attempted to kill in Northern Maine. The buck was a handsome specimen, about 3 years old. Haslam attempted to cut the animal’s throat after he had […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877
    One day last week a deer was chased from the mountain into Jackson’s river, closely followed by a pack of hounds. The deer crossed the river and jumped into a field near by, belonging to A. T. Stephenson, Esq. A small. mischievous mule was grazing in the field, and, as soon as he spied […]
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, August 2, 1879
Reno [Nev.] Gazette. Two pair of deer horns, interlocked so closely that they cannot be wrenched apart, were shown in Reno last night. Their owner is on his way East, and is taking them with him as a curiosity. The horns were found attached to the skeletons of two bucks, near Honey Lake. A man […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, February 3, 1819
On Friday the 4th instant, about 700 men of the neighboring townships, formed a hunting party. The signal for proceeding was given on Frenchtown Mountain, which was answered by all the horns of the hunters, comprising a circuit of 40 miles, in the space of 15 minutes. The hunters then progressed towards a centre in […]
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 3, 1922
By International News Service Arvada, Wyo., Nov. 3-Becoming provoked at an unmanageable gun, N. P. Brown, member of the Sherdan City Fire Department, is credited with “bull-dogging” a buck deer in real Western style. Brown cornered the animal in a draw along Powder River, where he was hunting, and succeeded in grasping the antlers of […]
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 24, 1897
The big elk in Forest park paddock in St. Louis was killed. The animal had become too cross for safety. It was brought from Chicago. At Lincoln Park it gored and killed two men, and in the fall of 1895 killed Henry Nelson, keeper of the Forest Park paddock.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, December 8, 1873
A Tough Old Hunter. The Exploits of Phin Teeple-Slaying Thousands of Deer and Hundreds of Bears-How His Boys Killed a Bear. Susquehanna Depot, Pa. [Dec,2], Correspondence of the New York San. Old Phin Teeple, of Preston, Wayne County, has been absent some weeks in the forests of Potter County hunting. Phin is 70 years old, […]
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 30, 1874
A deer chased by dogs, took refuge near where a man was squaring timber. The man drove the dogs off, and the deer remained with him all day, allowing him to fondle it, and appearing to feel a lively sense of gratitude for the man’s interference on its behalf.