Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Wolf Scalps

Porter and Lake Counties (Goodspeed-Blanchard) mentions that in the early days of this region's European settlement, the government paid bounties for wolf scalps (pp. 49, 53, 421). A page from one of the Hobart Historical Society's daybooks shows William Watkins taking steps to collect such a bounty in November 1841.

2018-5-1. DayB1840 104, 105
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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.


He was also doing business with some of the local Wolfs.

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