PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 rison, Bill Thayer, Sam /AcFadden and many 

 other pioneer hunters whose names I have for- 

 gotten were there. S. L. AcFadden was there 

 with his father and was only twelve years old. 

 In his narrative of the hunt, as he related it to 

 me, he said: "I will never forget it as I came 

 near freezing to death going home from the hunt 

 and we got so deer that we could not take care 

 of them or get them home as we had no means 

 of conveyance in those days. We carried some 

 but pulled the most of them out on a hand-sled. 

 As I have said before, the island was alive with 

 deer. The hunters, trappers and squattors 

 gathered in with guns. The oid cap and ball 

 rifle were used. With dogs, clubs, tomahawks, 

 pitchforks and corn-knives the massacre com- 

 menced at early morning and at sundown the 

 battle closed. The crowd consisted of about 

 twenty-five men and boys and two women. 

 One of the women killed a deer with a pitch- 

 fork. The party in all killed sixty-five deer, 

 seven wolves and two or three foxes, Wolves 



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