Author : Henry Wharton Shoemaker
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230404929
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Book Synopsis Extinct Pennsylvania Animals by : Henry Wharton Shoemaker
Download or read book Extinct Pennsylvania Animals written by Henry Wharton Shoemaker and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... called Bison Americanus Pennsylvanicus. Doubtless west of the Alleghenies the individuals shaded into the true bison of the plains, but those which ranged between the east and west slopes of the Alleghenies, migrating between the Great Lakes and the valleys of Southern Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, to Georgia, represented the type of bison of the Keystone State. Doubtless in Georgia they encountered the northern migrations of a southern or southwestern type of bison, the bison of Louisiana, but probably it, too, was closely related to the Pennsylvania type. The lengthy migrations were hardly in keeping with known characteristics of the wood bison of Colorado, Wyoming and Montana and of the Canadian northwest. But this can be clearly judged and determined after the stated facts are weighed and digested. But most in teresting of all seems the vast numbers of bison which roamed through the central and western parts of our state, now gone and forgotten through man's rapacious greed. It was early in the month of August, 1911, that a "clam bake" was given at Quiggle Springs, near McElhattan, in Clinton County. Though the bake was far from a success, as those present well remember, the information concerning the bison in Pennsylvania gleaned at it made it a memorable occasion. About nine o'clock in the evening, while waiting for the clams to be served, the moon began to rise from behind the Bald Eagle Mountain, which towered above the park. The conversation had turned to old Hyloshotkee, the Cayuga chief who once resided at the Five Springs, to the eloquent Logan, who often camped there, and then drifted to the subject of hunting adventures. One of the guests, Jacob Quiggle, formerly a Commissioner of Clinton County, at that time nearing...