10 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA 



Iredell Nelson killed two wolves in Clearfield County 

 in February and March, 1892 ; they were native brown 

 wolves and the last remnant of the big packs which for 

 years infested the Divide Region. Mr. Nelson was in 

 his 83rd year at that time, hence he can be called the 

 oldest wolf slayer that Pennsylvania has produced. 

 Capt. A. A. Clay, of Ridgway, Elk County, hunting 

 crony of Col. Roosevelt and an all around sportsman, 

 states that a native wolf was killed in Elk County in 

 1891. No name is given as to who killed this animal 

 in Rhoads' "Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jei"- 

 sey." It is said that another wolf was killed by a deer 

 hunter in Elk County in 1887. John Razey, a re- 

 spected citizen of Sunderlinville, killed a wolf in 

 Potter County in 1890, and received a bounty from the 

 County Commissioners. On September 6th of the 

 same year Fremont Gage, of Sweden Valley, killed 

 another wolf in Potter County. The year 1886 was 

 prolific in kills of native wolves. Dan Treaster, "the 

 Daniel Boone of the Seven Mountains," killed a mag- 

 nificent black wolf in Treaster Valley, formerly Black 

 Wolf Valley, Mifflin County, and George Sizer killed 

 a grey wolf on Potato Creek, in McKean County. 

 Dan Long killed the last wolf in the Blue Mountains 

 in 1886 in Shubert's Gap, as the bounty records of 

 Berks County for that year will show. In 1888 

 Charles Ives and Theodore Pierce, two boys, killed a 

 lame grey wolf on Kinzua Creek, McKean County. It 

 had escaped from one of C. W. Dickinson's traps a 

 few seasons before. In 1885 Dan Treaster killed twf) 



