PlONhER HUN'l ERS OF THE KANKAKEE 



extinct long before the water ever flowed in the 

 new river. The last deer that was killed in the 

 swamp, to my knowledge, was killed by E, D. 

 Salsberry, a Panhandle railroad engineer of Lo- 

 gansport, Indiana, in his Fall hunt of 1880. 

 Salsberry and his party were in camp on Cor- 

 nell Island and one morning he and ike Shaw, 

 another Panhandle engineer, were going to the 

 South /Aarsh for a day's shooting and in going 

 through the swamp timber a deer ran, across the 

 trail and Salsberry shot and killed it. usin? small 

 bird shot. And two months later Father killed 

 one on the North /Aarsh. These were the last 

 deer ever seen alive or dead in this part of the 

 swamp region. The story of the Kankakee 

 country is a story of evolution in the develop- 

 ment of a country richly endowed by nature, 

 and a story of neglected opportunity, neglected 

 in some instances not from lack of appreciation 

 but from man's natural inclination to follow 

 along the lines of least resistance. Nature has 

 done so much for this favored country that the 



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