THE PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 the Kankakee river. Two years later my 

 Grandfather Dye came from Holmes County, 

 Ohio, and settled on a prairie on the west side 

 of Sandy Hook, which is now known as Horse 

 Prairie, He was the first white settler in what is 

 now Boone township. AVy mother at that time 

 was only five years of age and she remembers 

 seeing many of the Fottowattomies. Her arri- 

 val in the Kankakee country antedating that of 

 my father is more than fifteen years. In the 

 next decade many settlers were found in this 

 part of the country. Game was plentiful and in 

 every cabin was found a rifle or two. From 

 some of these pioneer homes came the early 

 hunters and trappers of this story. Hence, "The 

 Pioneer Hunters of the Kankakee" is the title of 

 my story. In the outset of this story I had in 

 mind only a short story of the early trappers and 

 hunters. But I have detoured out over more 

 territory than I expected. If I were to give a 

 graphic sketch of all the men who have hunted 

 and trapped on the Kankakee it would fill vol- 



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