This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... on their route from Fort Clark to Old Town. The Captain says squads of them would stop there and rest on their annual hunts. The majority, however, had emigrated to Logan County. He says deer were plenty, and he would frequently shoot them; wolves were in great abundance; they could at any time be seen ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... on their route from Fort Clark to Old Town. The Captain says squads of them would stop there and rest on their annual hunts. The majority, however, had emigrated to Logan County. He says deer were plenty, and he would frequently shoot them; wolves were in great abundance; they could at any time be seen skulking in the woods; sheep had to be secured within high enclosures, and hogs in close pens; bears were few; elk had emigrated to the West; turkeys, coons, opossums and other small game were in abundance. The Captain, being something of a marksman, kept his family well supplied with fresh meat. Mills there were none; horse mills and hand mills were all the early pioneers had; they frequently used the hominy block and grater; sometimes a journey to the Scioto mills by some of the pioneers would be made; roads were Indian trails and deer paths. The Captain says hordes of wild hogs infested the woods; he describes them as having tushes like rams' horns, head and nose long'and sharp, legs long and close as the rabbit, when provoked to anger more dangerous than any beast of the forest, and in the chase could distance the hound or the trained fox steed; he says these wild hogs nest in jumbles on the bank's of Sugar Creek. Snakes were rather plenty; he killed once a monster, the largest he ever saw, he thinks, and was perhaps as old as Methuselah, as the life of a snake is 1,000 years, agreeably to snakeology historians. He says that grass on the prairies would grow as high as a horses back, and the runs and natural holes and pools afforded water for stock the entire season. Corn ground was plowed with a wooden share and iron point, and the corn planted with hoes; when sufficiently high it was bladed and topped, and when ripe was pulled and hauled to...
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