56 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



just inside the crude gate. Jimmy was watching for 

 her, and ran forward, rifle in hand. The Indians were 

 delighted to see that the half-breed boy possessed such 

 courage, and danced and sang with glee. Then the 

 carcass was measured. It was just one inch over six 

 feet from tip to tip, and its estimated weight was 100 

 pounds. The tail, measured separately, was exactly 

 two feet. The famous "Beaver Dam Wolf," killed in 

 Blair County, in 1907, according to enthusiastic chron- 

 iclers, measured less than six feet, and weighed eighty- 

 foiu" pounds. The hide was stretched^ and cured ac- 

 cording to formulas of the redmen and sent as a relic 

 to Ole Bull, who, during his residence near New 

 Bergen, had befriended the Indian widow and her 

 Norse-blooded son. Unfortunately, the great violinist 

 was on a tour when the skin reached New York, and 

 it became lost before he returned to claim it. It is said 

 that he wrote a note of thanks to the lad, which the 

 celebrated hunter preserved to his dying day. This 

 early triumph decided the career of Jim Jacobson. He 

 became a hunter, devoting practically his entire time 

 to the pursuit of big game. Though jealous of his 

 reputation as a Nimrod, he was modest and unobtru- 

 sive. But his record as the slayer of a big elk 

 in Potter County and the biggest wolf in Pennsylvania 

 are now pretty firmly established. Edwin Grimes, 

 while hunting in the Kinzua Valley in 1860, with Ben- 

 jamin Main, killed a record grey wolf. The hide was 

 sold to the veteran wolfer LeRoy Lyman, who pro- 

 nounced it the biggest he had seen in his long experi- 



