X. WOLF HUNTING IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



By C. W. Dickinson, Smethport, McKean County, 

 the Greatest Living Wolf Hunter. 



(Reproduced from the Altoona Tribune.) 



AS to the killing of the last grey wolf in Pennsyl- 

 vania, I can only state that I believe the last 

 grey or timber wolf, as they are called in many 

 sections, was killed in McKean County in the latter 

 part of September or fore part of October in 1SS6. 

 (Charles Ives, one of the party, gives the date as 1888.) 

 Two boys from Bradford came up to Mi. Jewett,, a 

 small town along the N. Y. & Erie R. R., about three 

 miles south of the famous Kinzua Viaduct. The boys 

 got off the train at Mt. Jewett,^ went to the Nelson 

 Hotel, which was kept by a man by the name of W. 

 Wallace Brewer, who, by the way, was an old hunter 

 and trapper here. The boys stated they were going 

 down to the old Beaver Meadows to spend a week in 

 search of big game, and the}' each wanted to get a pint 

 of whiskey. Mr. Brewer informed them they were too 

 young to get any liquor, and advised them to go back 

 to Bradford, as big game was scarce in that locality, 

 and said he thought they stood as much of a chance 

 to find a gold mine as they did to kill anything larger 

 than a porcupine. The boys were not in a mood to be 

 discouraged ; they shouldered their knapsacks and 

 guns and started for the old Beaver Meadows, whicli 



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