46 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



lie was employed, that the horses would hardly be fit 

 for work the next day, so terrified were the poor 

 equines. Wolves were numerous on Potato Creek, in 

 McKean County, up to about that same year. The old 

 packs, such as had marooned Dan Treaster in his barn 

 in Treaster Valley, Centre County, up to about 1850, 

 were about run out in the Seven Mountains by ]880. 

 They relied on company for the success of their hunt- 

 ing operations, and they apparently lacked the courage 

 to forage alone. In Penn's time packs of five hun- 

 dred wolves had been noticed. Peter Pentz, who died 

 in 1813, was once followed by a pack of two hundred, 

 which was considered an unusually large number at 

 that time. 



Dr. B. H. Warren, famous naturalist and custodian 

 of the Everhart Museum at Scranton, thus describes 

 an encounter with wolves in Tomhicken Valley : 



"The following memoranda came from Dr. Thos. C. 

 Thornton, of Lewisburg, Union County. This physi- 

 cian is something over seventy years of age, and a son 

 of the Dr. Thornton who had an adventure with the 

 war-like wolves. When in Lewisburg, call to see Dr. 

 Thornton. He lives next house to our friend, Hon. 

 C. K. Sober, and he would be pleased to have you call 

 to see him. 



In the late summer or early autumn, al)out the 

 year 1843, Dr. T. A. H. Thornton was going from 

 Tomhicken Valley, Luzerne County, to Catawissa, Co- 

 lumbia County. At that period there were no wagon 

 roads. The doctor's route was from necessity via 



