bear hunting Archives - Appalachian History

No matter how mean you are, when you’re dead I ain’t scared of you

Two North Georgia farmers compete to see who can tell the best version of a local ghost story. “Fat or lean, take him as he is!”

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.

Plott Coon Hounds are the only breed of the original 6 breeds of coon hounds without British influence in their ancestry.