50 THE BLACK BEAR OF PENNSYLVANIA 



P. L. Webster, one of the pioneers of Littletown. 

 now Bradford, McKean County, who died several 

 years ago, had this to say concerning Jim Jacobs, 

 known as ''The Seneca Bear Hunter" : "Jacobs was 

 a good Indian. He was a great deer hunter and a 

 greater bear hunter. He killed the largest bear ever 

 heard of in the memory of man in this section. It 

 weighed 500 pounds. Deer and bears were plenty in 

 those days hereabouts, and panthers, too.'' Jesse 

 Logan, an Indian who lived 1 past the century mark, 

 dying in 1916, and who resided on the Cornplanter 

 Reservation in Pennsylvania, was also known as a 

 noted bear hunter, and killed several bears of ab- 

 normally large size. Among them was a dog bear, 

 a more warlike type than the shyer and more inof- 

 fensive hog bear, and more akin to the semi-mythical 

 naked bear, ialready spoken of, which was such a ter- 

 ror to the Indians of New York State and Northern 

 Pennsylvania tha they had to exterminate it. Bears, 

 in addition to loving mud' baths and wallows, were 

 noted swimmers. 



Mr. Chatham relates how, on one occasion, Joseph 

 Montgomery, one of the pioneers of Wayne Town- 

 ship, Clinton County, was seated on his front porch 

 when he saw a bear come down the opposite bank 

 of the Susquehanna river, near the mouth of Chat- 

 ham Run, and start to swim across. The width of the 

 river at this point is a'bout 1,000^ feet, but the bear 

 swept along with measured strokes like a veteran swim- 

 mer. Just as he was crawling ashore, and had begun 



