Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Hunting

He fired his gun and heard the youth scream

Blaine Shepherd, a youth of the Crumpler-Grassy Creek section of the county, was shot and accidentally killed by his father.

Him and his brother-in-law one night back years ago, about forty, went out a-bear huntin’, a-possum huntin’ or other, and treed a bear.

He r’ared up on his hind legs, started slapping at that bar’l trying to git it offen his head. In about 3-4 minutes he rolled over, dead.

West Virginian Bruce Crickard describes trapping a live bear, then carrying it back home strung on a pole, still live.

Lucy Furman accomplished, between 1934 and 1938, a task that seemed at first impossible of accomplishment: outlawing the steel trap.

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