Saturday, September 14, 2013
, Illinois State Journal on Monday, December 23, 2024
A day or two since, as Mr. Solomon Reed, of Dorset, Vt. was cutting wood, at some distance from his house, a very large bear stole up behind and ordered him to stop. He let fly his axe at Bruin, but it missed, and Bruin, in turn, let fly at him. Solomon then seized a […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 14, 1911
Ingenious Trap That Was Formerly Used by the Mexicans. The Mexicans in California had an ingenious method of trapping bears before the advent of the Yankees brought modern firearms into the region. A piece of meat was nailed to the stout horizontal limb of an oak tree. From a limb five or six feet above […]
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 21, 1907
Woods had only five all told but the President got all he saw. Only one shot by his own rifle. Goes into the bush for bruin and shoots straight.-Other big game is killed. Stamboul, La., Oct. 21.-“We got three bears, six deer, one wild turkey, twelve squirrels, one duck, one possum and one wildcat. We […]
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 23, 1907
Jay Bunchof Aberdeen, Wash., had an experience recently that bids fair to rival Roosevelt’s coyote yarn. Bunch is a flier at Larkin Bros.’ logging camp on the Wishkah, and with a friend and several dogs started out to find a bee tree. They had not gone far when the dogs started up a bear. Bruin […]
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 21, 1882
A pet bear broke its chain and killed a little son of A. Welsh, of St. Clair county, Mich., last Tuesday.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, December 9, 1847
A correspondent in California gives us the following specimen of hunting in that region: “I have seen together in one drove [I may say in safety,] from two to three thousand elk. This was on the Joaquin Bottom. Deer are to be met with at a short distance from the dwellings in any of the […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, July 27, 1848
A correspondent of the National Intelligencer, writing from the Alleghany Mountains in Georgia, describes an old hunter whom he found in a log cabin, in the center of a small valley completely hemmed in on all sides by wild and abrupt Mountains and one of the most romantic and beautiful rocks imaginable. He has lived […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, August 16, 1848
It was one day during the present week, that two boys, sons of Seth Manes, of Bradford township, Pa., one perhaps fifteen and the other eight or ten years of age, discovered a very large bear carrying a sheep through one of the fields. The oldest boy ran to the house, got a gun, gave […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, March 24, 1838
Mr. G. Decker, of Shawangunk, a young man of spirit and resolution, while on a bear hunt not long since, in the Shawangunk mountains, discovered a large fierce looking black bear up about twenty feet in a large pin oak tree. Mr. D. was not discovered by the bear until he was within gun shot, […]
Friday, September 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 16, 1878
Three of the crew of the steamship Intrepid, Captain Soutar, had a very exciting adventure at the Greenland sea fishery this season. During the time that their vessel was fast beset among the ice, three of the crew-Thomas Royall, Wolverhampton, James Winter, Peterhead, and William Mulligan, Dundee-set out one day to pay a visit to […]