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and 1916. Wolves are said to have fought over the 

 bodies of Captain Harry Green, the "Regulator" from 

 the Juniata country, and his companians, who were 

 murdered by Indian marauders in Green's Gap, Clinton 

 County, in 1801, their howling and yelping being so 

 vociferous that settlers were attracted to the spot, and 

 who gave the remains decent burial. White Mingo, a 

 celebrated Indian who was murdered at Stump's Run, 

 near Swinefordstown, now Middleburg, in 1768, gave 

 an exhibition of personal bravery as a wolf-hunter never 

 since equalled in Pennsylvania. When the first white 

 settlers came to Middle Creek Valley, about 1765, 

 they were troubled with incursions of wolves from the 

 surrounding mountains. White Mingo came to the 

 rescue of the pioneers by smearing blood and tallow on 

 his moccasins and making a trail in the forest. The 

 wolves took up the scent, until soon a pack of one 

 hundred rapacious beasts were at the heels of this 

 savage prototype of the Pied Piper! He timed the 

 process so that the animals emerged from the woods 

 near the present town of Beaver Springs, where set- 

 tlers concealed behind stumps and sheds shot them 

 down to the last one. The last pack of wolves — thir- 

 teen in number — to visit Middle Creek Valley came to 

 a barnyard near Beavertown during the cold winter of 

 1840, killing a huge ox in sight of the frightened 

 tenants of the premises. A device known as the "wolf 

 knife" was successfully tried on the wolves in Jack's 

 Mountain, back of Beavertown. It consisted of a 

 sharp knife blade imbedded in frozen fat, and placed 



