WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 45 



teenth century they were prevalent in Franklin, 

 Adams, Cumberland, Perry, Schuylkill, Luzerne and 

 adjoining counties to the North. In 1845 or there- 

 abouts they are described as being very numerous in 

 the Wyoming and Tomhicken Valleys. They were 

 still found by the hundreds in the Seven Mountains, 

 and to the South of them, and in Potter, McKean and 

 Clearfield Counties. They were exterminated in the 

 West Branch Valley, except as stragglers, about this 

 time. The celebrated Black Wolf which regularly 

 followed the packetboats on the West Branch Canal 

 from Williamsport to Lock Haven at night, was killed 

 during the great flood of 1847, by Mike Curts, where 

 the old woolen mill now stands in Antes Gap. Mrs. 

 Caroline Lanks, "The Little Red Riding Hood of the 

 West Branch," who as a small girl saw the wolf and 

 alarmed the neighborhood, said that it was black with 

 wide brown bars. "Black Headed Bill" Williams, 

 old-timer and veteran Bucktail, of Pine Station, Clin- 

 ton County, says that the last time he heard a wolf call 

 on the Round Top back of his home was in the Fall of 

 1863, when he was home from the army on a furlough. 

 Wolves from Sugar Valley often appeared on the 

 Round Top, which rises direotly South of Mr. Wil- 

 liams' home, long after they had ceased to breed in 

 its rocky caverns. Wolves in Clearfield County were 

 plentiful on Mosquito Creek, in 1880, according to 

 Leonard Johnson, formerly a well-known lumberman. 

 They kept up such a howling at night, and such a 

 scampering around the horse stables in a camp where 



