82 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



their own family. So by taking the food supply from 

 the wolf during the hard winter months his fate was 

 sealed." 



As stated by Air. Dickinson, sometimes the hungry 

 wolves turned on one another. Henry \Mse, born in 

 1840, and a lifelong resident of Sugar \'alley. in Clin- 

 ton County, relates that in the 3"ear of the panic of '57, 

 a pack of wolves in crossing the valley turned on one 

 of their fellows near the mouth of Schwenk's Gap 

 and devoured it. This bears out the old French pro- 

 verb, "Maitz'aise est la saison qiiaiid iin hup mange 

 I'mitrc." Henry B. Karstetter recalls tlie wolves cross- 

 ing Sugar A^alley as late as 1850, and their persistent 

 howling when they reached the ''Winter Side." Daniel 

 Mark, born in 1835, while out picking huckleberries 

 on the Falsbarg, a high mountain on the watershed of 

 White Deer Creek, saw a wolf, at close range, in the 

 summer of 1870. The sight of it frightened his dogs 

 to silence and he said nothing about it at the time, lest 

 it terrify his women companions. H. J. Schwenk saw 

 this same wolf a few years later. The last wolves in 

 "Wolfland," as the wild region at the head of Weikert 

 Run, in Union County, was called, were killed in 

 1857, w^hen an intrepid band of hunters, consisting of 

 Bill Pursley (died February 3, 1893, aged 87 years), 

 William Aloyer and Jacob F. Barnet, surprised and 

 killed a pack of eleven coal black wolves. Joe Berfield 

 and Henry Alason, the leading wolf hunters of the 

 Sinnemahoning Valley, surprised and wiped out a 

 pack of twelve wolves on Loup Run, now erroneously 



