PIONEER HUNTERS OE THE KANKAKEE 



term it such from the inhabitants of the place as 

 1 have experienced just such a joke myself 

 many years ago whilst I was an overland freight- 

 er on the western plains. We would work this 

 gag on the tenderfoot that would come along 

 inquiring if there were any settlements or set- 

 tlers living anywhere near. The answer was 

 most always in the affirmative and if they would 

 go to such and such a place there was quite a 

 settlement and a large town. The tenderfoot on 

 going to the place directed would find it inhabit- 

 ed by a lively little four-footed tribe known as 

 •prairie dogs. (I have hunted for these towns 

 myself.) This is about such a farm that P\r. 

 Jones had traded for instead of two good farms 

 and houses. They were musk-rat houses. It 

 was 'in sixty-nine (the \fjei season) when Jones 

 made his trip down the Kankakee and the re- 

 sources of the country were not so well de- 

 veloped then as they are now, and his story of 

 what he saw is more amusing than jest, so far 

 as the truth is concerned. He says Indiana is 



