82 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



their own family. So by taking the food supply from 

 the wolf during the hard winter months his fate was 

 sealed." 



As stated by Mr. Dickinson, sometimes the liungry 

 wolves turned on one another. Henry Wise, born in 

 1840, and a lifelong resident of Sugar Valley, in Clin- 

 ton County, relates that in the year of the panic of '57, 

 a pack of wolves in crossing the valley turned on one 

 of their fellows near the mouth of Schwenk's C.ap 

 ana devoured it. This bears out the old French pro- 

 verb, "Mauvaise est la saison qiiaiid nn loup niamjc 

 I'autre." Henry B. Karstetter recalls t'ne wolves cross- 

 ing Sugar Valley as late as ISTiO, and their persistent 

 howling when they reached the "Winter Side." Daniel 

 Mark, born in 183-5, while out picking huckleberries 

 on the Falsljarg, a high mountain on the watershed of 

 White Deer Creek, saw a wolf, at close range, in the 

 summer of lisTO. The sight of it frightened his do^s 

 to silence and he said nothing about it at the time, lest 

 it terrify his women companions. H. J. Schwenk saw 

 this same wolf a few years later. The last wolves in 

 "Wolfland," as the wild region at the head of Wcikert 

 Run, in Union County, was called, were killed in 

 185T, when an intrepid band of hunters, consisting of 

 Bill Pursley (died February ?>. IBDH, aged 87 years), 

 William Moyer and Jacob F. Barnet, surprised and 

 killed a pack of eleven coal black wolves. Joe F.erfiield 

 and Henry ?vIason, the leading wolf hunters of the 

 Sinnemahoning Valley, surprised and wiped out a 

 pack of twelve wolves on Loup Run, now erroneously 



