WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



and part ranged into Potter County, The bulk of the 

 jNIcKean County aggregation were slain or scattered 

 by C. W. Dickinson, formerly of Norwich, but the 

 remnant were killed after 1886 on Potato Creek and 

 Kinzua Creek. The last of the Potter County band 

 were killed by John Razey, of Sunderlinville, and Fre- 

 mont Gage, of Sweden Hill, in 1890, who collected the 

 bounty on their scalps. However, C. W. Dickinson 

 claims, with good reason, in Chapter VHI, that the 

 Razey '"wolf" was Col. Parker's escaped coyote. The 

 grey wolf which followed the last elk killed by Jim 

 Jacobson, a half breed hunter, in Potter County, No- 

 vember, 1875, was shot a few weeks later by Le Roy 

 Lyman. There was a pack of grey wolves in Blair and 

 Cambria County, which ranged into other more south- 

 erly counties, and another pack of grey wolves in Som- 

 erset County, which inhabited Laurel Ridge. These 

 packs were being constantly reinforced by starving 

 animals from West ^^irginia. C. E. Connelly, the his- 

 torian, states that he heard wolves howling in the for- 

 est at night in West Virginia, between Buffalo Creek 

 and the Gauley River, in September, 1902. The almost 

 total destruction by hunters of deer, wild turkeys, 

 ground-hogs and rabbits in the mountains of Southern 

 Pennsylvania, caused the breaking up of these wolfish 

 companies, perhaps forever. S. N. Rhoads mentions 

 a school master, "somewhere in the Seven Mountains," 

 being attacked by a pack of wolves about 189S. 

 Lucky pedagogue to have had' such an experience in 

 this empty day ! 



