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The Black Moose in Pennsylvania

Shoemaker, Henry W. (Henry Wharton), 1880-1958· 2 chapters· 8,892 words

of a fresh-appearing set of Moose antlers in a salt lick near the New York State line. Investigation of this account showed that the antlers in question were unearthed in 1819 by Jim Jacobs, "The Seneca Bear Hunter," a noted Indian hunter at a swamp which was situated in Bradf...

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2. Chapter I (Reading, 1912), and "Juniata Memories," Chapters IX, XXIV

and XXVI (Philadelphia, 1916), by the author of these pages. Other mention of the Black Moose in Pennsylvania is occasionally made in county histories, romances and poems of the...

1. Volume I, Page 281, a Philadelphia correspondent tells of the finding

of a fresh-appearing set of Moose antlers in a salt lick near the New York State line. Investigation of this account showed that the antlers in question were unearthed in 1819 b...