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his long beard admiringly, evidently forgetting that 

 their idols, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, "Jeb" 

 Stewart and N. B. Forrest, were similarly bewhiskered. 



A broadside on the subject was sold in Richmond, 

 and Mr. Chatham, who had' seen a copy, can recite 

 several of the witty verses. Ka'rstetter later made 

 his escape and sniped a few more Confederate digni- 

 taries before returning home, where for years he was 

 a familiar figure at all "butchering bees" in the valley. 

 "Jake" Zimmerman is the author of the following 

 intensely interesting anecdotes of early Pennsylvania 

 bear hunters and hunting. 



The confirmation of his story of the "biggest bear," 

 by old Daniel Mark, born in 1835, of Loganton, 

 would indicate that the mammoth bruin despatched 

 by Charles Engle was the real "grandfather bear." 



Jake Zimmerman's Reminiscences 



"About the year 1824 or 1825 a man by name of 

 John Lushbach living near the White Deer Furnace 

 or what is called Forest Iron Works in Union County, 

 who was a great bear hunter and trapper, as well as 

 a deer hunter, tracked a bear into a hole in the rocks 

 on Nittany Mountain, and wishing to divide the sport 

 among his hunter neighbors and friends, left the bear 

 den and returned to his camp and invited Isaac Robb 

 and John Zimmerman, the father of David Zimmerman 

 and grandfather of Jake Zimmerman, now living at 

 Zimmerman's farm in East Sugar Valley, and several 



