CHAPTER V 

 DIVIDING THP: game 



KILLING DEER WITH PITCHFORKS 



AND CORN KNIVES ON BOGUS ISLAND 



. AND HOW WE HUNTED AND DIVIDED 



GAME IN PIONEER DAYS 



In the cold winter of 1838, many years before 

 Beaver Lake in Newton County, Indiana, was 

 drained, there was an island at the v/est end of 

 the lake called Sogus Island from the fact that 

 it was the home of the outlaws and despera- 

 does. Bogus Island, as this island has been 

 known for many years, was the last refuge of 

 the counterfeiters of the picturesque era of our 

 Kankakee life. Mere, until comparatively re- 

 cent years, the robber, the counterfeiter, the 

 horse thief, the highwayman of the swamps and 

 the "bad man" of the frontier found s^fe retreat 



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