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The American Elk in Pennsylvania. 
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for supper, but there was not a knife or a hunt¬ 
ing-ax in that party that could make an impres¬ 
sion on the old fellow’s flesh. He was a patri¬ 
arch of the woods and long past use as food. 
All the starving hunters could manage to make 
edible of the elk was his tongue, which, roasted, 
was a grateful offering to hungry men, but 
would have been impossible of mastication other¬ 
wise. The horns were the only trophy that the 
hunters got from the long and tedious chase, and 
that trophy was well worth it. It was the largest 
and next to the finest pair of antlers ever car¬ 
ried by an elk in the Pennsylvania forest, so far 
as there is any record. 
There are scattered through the woods, gen¬ 
erally high on the hills, from the Allegheny Riv¬ 
er down to the West ranch and Clarion River, 
huge rocks, some detached boulders, and other 
projections of ledges. These are known as elk 
rocks, and every one of them has been, in its 
day, the last resort of some elks brought to bay 
after a long and hard chase. It was the habit 
of the hunted elk, when it had in vain sought to 
throw the hunter and hound from the trail, to 
make its stand at one of these rocks. Mounting 
it, and facing its foes, it fiercely fought off the 
assaults of the dogs by blows of its forefeet or 
tremendous kicks from its hind feet, until the 
hunter came up and ended the fight with his 
rifle. It would be strange if one or more of the 
dogs were not stretched dead at the foot of the 
rock by the time the hunter arrived on the scene. 
I have more than once found dead wolves lying 
about one of these elk rocks, telling mutely, but 
eloquently, the tragic story of the pursuit of the 
elk by the wolves, his coming to bay on the rock, 
the battle, and the elk’s victory. The elk was not 
always victor, though, in such battles with wolves, 
and I have frequently found the stripped skel¬ 
eton of one lying among the skeletons of wolves 
he had killed before being himself vanquished 
by their savage and hungry fellows. 
In the winter time the elks would gather in 
large herds and their range would be exceed¬ 
ingly limited. Sometimes they would migrate 
to other regions, and would not be seen for 
months in their haunts, but suddenly 'they would 
return and be as plentiful as ever. They had 
their regular paths or runways through the 
woods, and these invariably led to salt licks of 
which there were many natural ones in Northern 
Pennsylvania. One of the most frequented of 
these elk paths started in a dense forest, where 
the town of Ridgeway, the county seat of Elk 
County now stands, led to the great lick on the 
Sinnemahoning portage, and thence through the 
forest to another big lick, which to-day is cov¬ 
ered by Washington Park, in the city of Brad¬ 
ford. I have followed that elk path its whole 
length, when the only sign of civilization was 
now and then a hunter’s cabin, from the head¬ 
waters of the Clarion River to the Allegheny, in 
McKean County. Hundreds of elks were killed 
annually at the licks or while travelling to and 
from them, along their well-marked runways. 
Hunting elks by night was an exciting sport. 
You have heard of persons being scared by their 
own shadows. If you had ever hunted a Penn¬ 
sylvania elk at night you would have had an 
opportunity of seeing something scared by its 
own shadow, and scared badly. A blazing pine- 
knot fire would be lighted in the bow of a flat- 
bottomed boat, and while one man sat near that 
end with his rifle, another paddled it through 
the water. Elks were always sure to be standing 
in the water early in the evening, after darkness 
had fully set in. When the light of the fire fell 
on an elk you would not only see his eyes shining 
