68 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



stories, which I will explain later on. There is a section 

 of this State which used to be known as the wildcat dis- 

 trict, which included Potter County, Cameron County, 

 Clearfield County, Jefferson County, Elk County, 

 Forest County and IVEcKean County, which was the 

 last home and breeding place of the grey wolf. Now, 

 we say grey wolf because this was the only species of 

 wolf we had in that section for the last 100 years, 

 except a few coyotes that were brought into McKean 

 from the western plains. We never had any black or 

 brown wolves in this locality — not for the last 100 

 years. It is true there was a little difference in the 

 color of some of them; some would be a shade lighter 

 or a shade darker than others, but this variation in 

 color was very small when compared with the medium 

 color. As the lumber trade was carried on more ex- 

 tensively in all of the above named counties except 

 McKean, in which the trade was carried on -only in a 

 small way along the Allegheny River and Potato 

 Creek, it left the southern part of this county, the 

 northern part of Cameron county and the northern 

 part of Elk county a virgin forest, only traversed by 

 hunters and trappers. In this section the wolves had 

 their last pow-wow. From 1850 until the last one was 

 killed, the number of sheep killed by wolves will never 

 be known, but the toll was heavy. To give the reader 

 something of an idea of these losses, will state some of 

 my near neighbors' losses. A man who lived within a 

 half mile of my father, wishing to make some of his 

 relatives in the middle Western States a visit, rented 



