Record #:

8702

Author(s):

Shillingsburg, Miriam J.

Abstract:

In 1847, novelist William Gilmore Simms made a trip with professional game-hunters in the North Carolina mountains and later related his adventures in a book. Each professional hunter had several guns and a kennel of dogs. Usually, the hunter injured an animal with a single shot and then allowed his dogs to fight it while he finished it off while a gaming knife. The professional hunters tracked all manner of animals but would not hunt panther because of their legendary fierceness.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 49 Issue 8, Jan 1982, p13-14, 56, il

Subject(s):

Hunting--North Carolina, Western; Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870