PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 go, brought to our place the first air pillows that 

 I ever saw. It was in a hunting boat on the 

 Kankakee marshes and near our place that I 

 first met one of Indiana's most famous writers, 

 General Lew Wallace. He was with a party of 

 Indianapolis hunters and was stopping at the 

 Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Rockville club 

 houses at Baum's Bridge, I might mention 

 scores of Indiana hunters who have at some 

 time in the years past hunted on the Kankakee. 

 Getting logs out of the swamp was very un- 

 certain owing to various conditions of the 

 swamps. Sometimes the swamp would freeze 

 up early in the winter with high water and be- 

 fore it froze solid the water would leave the ice 

 making it shelly and when the ice was in this 

 condition it was dangerous getting around with 

 a team. Under these conditions logging was 

 no good that winter. Finally Father sold the 

 saw mill to some parties in Valparaiso and they 

 moved it to the big woods near Chesterton, In- 

 diana. About 25 years ago Father sold the 



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