Category: hunting

• Mr. Wheelock Mistakes a Cat for a Rabbit (Keene)

  

  Here’s a double-header GUEST POST of a favorite hunting anecdote from Thomas C. Rand’s “Sketch of Keene, Gem of the Ashuelot Valley”…

  Marek

  22 July, 2013

  1850s, cats, guest artist, guns, hunting, Keene, NH history, rabbit

  cat, gun, hunting, Keene, Mr. Wheelock, rabbit, Thomas C. Rand

• Bear Ferry (Chesterfield)

  

  A color splash page based on that old Chesterfield story, “Fishing for Bear”:

  Marek

  1 February, 2013

  1700-1799, bear, Chesterfield, hunting, posters, SOURCE=HSCC

  bear, chesterfield, hunting, lake, spafford, spofford

• The Bear & Boorn’s Buttons (Richmond)

  

  Just when you thought you’d heard every variation on these bear hunting stories… Jacob Bump to the rescue!

  Marek

  30 January, 2013

  1700-1799, bear, colonial, hunting, Richmond, SOURCE=Barrett

  Amos Boorn, bear, gun, Jacob Bump, Richmond, Silas Whipple

• Sabbath Hawks (Weare)

  

  What a difference a century of Holy Sundays can make!

  Marek

  27 January, 2013

  1600-1699, 1800-1899, chicken, colonial, eagle+hawk, hunting, judicial branch, Massachusetts, sabbath, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  Edward Gove, hawk, hunting, Josiah Gove, sabbath, weare

• Mrs. Peters Shoots a Bear (Henniker)

  

  GUN SAFETY IN THE 1770s: If you come to visit, DON’T take that shortcut through the cornfield…

  Marek

  23 January, 2013

  1770s, bear, colonial, corn, Henniker, hunting, SOURCE=Cogswell

  bear, guns, Henniker, Sarah Peters, William Peters

• Fox Chase (Weare)

  

  This snowy tale from Little’s history falls somewhere between “hunting story” and “dream”…

  Marek

  14 December, 2012

  1700-1799, fox, hunting, Piscataquog, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  fox, Samuel Worthen, weare

• Moose Chase (Weare)

  

  If I’ve learned one thing from reading old hunting stories, it’s this: These guys were HUNGRY.

  Marek

  13 December, 2012

  1770s, colonial, Henniker, hunting, moose, Piscataquog, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  John Chase, moose, weare

• Wolves Around a Fire (Henniker)

  

  Early settlers in Henniker come up with an efficient way to reduce a predator population.

  Marek

  12 December, 2012

  1770s, colonial, Henniker, hunting, SOURCE=Cogswell, wolves

  Ammi Brook, David Connor, Henniker, Jacob Whitcomb, wolf

• Bunny Hugs (Weare)

  

  WARNING: It’s not as cute as it looks.

  Marek

  11 December, 2012

  hunting, rabbit, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  rabbit, weare

• “Rabbit” Stew (Weare)

  

  “The boys” cook up a clever plan to secure some cider from (and play a culinary joke on) Mrs. Wadleigh… << BEFORE: Hunting raccoon … NEXT: Snuggling bunnies >> Great greasy gut-strings, some of these animal tales are downright ghastly!  What an unsatisfying joke; “in bad taste,” you might even say… On the other hand,…

  Marek

  11 December, 2012

  1800-1899, cats, hunting, rabbit, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  Judy Wadleigh, rabbit, Rockland, weare

• Raccoon Hunting (Weare)

  

  What’s this secret “fluid bait” ingredient that all the “coon hunters” swear by?

  Marek

  10 December, 2012

  1880s, dogs, hunting, raccoon, SOURCE=Little, Weare

• Winter of 1761-1762 (Weare)

  

  One settler family receives a surprise visitor during a particularly harsh winter in early Weare…

  Marek

  7 December, 2012

  1760s, colonial, deer, hunting, moose, pigs, SOURCE=Little, Weare, weather

  snow, winter

• Pring 12 ~ As The Land is Full

  

  Wherein we can perhaps glimpse the little gold “crownes” in Pring’s eyes as he ogles the natives’ pelts …

  Marek

  17 November, 2012

  1600s, animals, bear, berries, deer, dogs, encounter & exploration, fish, forestry, fox, herbs, hunting, Journal of Martin Pring, medicine, porcupine, seacoast

• Deaths (Weare)

  

  How folks died in the early days of Weare…

  Marek

  25 October, 2012

  1810s, 1820s, 1830s, death, dogs, hunting, milk, SOURCE=Little, squirrel, Weare

  death, Enos Baker, Hasket Eaton, John Robie, Jonathan Atwood

• Snakes (Weare)

  

  Let’s see what the old timers were up to in Weare, as related in William Little’s exhaustive History… (1888):

  Marek

  19 October, 2012

  1800-1899, hunting, snakes, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  garden, hunting, killing, snakes, weare

• Mr. Barnes & the Bear (Henniker)

  

  In honor of the start of hunting season, we continue with (what else?) another action-packed story of ursine urgency! … << BEFORE: Fishing for bear in Chesterfield. *”BY THIS TIME, BARNES BEGAN TO REALIZE…” ~ I just love that line. (source = Cogswell) Elisha Barnes was a leading figure in the early days of Henniker; for…

  Marek

  2 October, 2012

  1780s, bear, Henniker, hunting, SOURCE=Cogswell

  axe, bear, fight, forest, hunt, wounds

• Fishing for Bear (Chesterfield)

  

  An unusual hunting tale from the Keene area…

  Marek

  1 October, 2012

  1750s, bear, Chesterfield, colonial, hunting, Keene, SOURCE=HSCC, stick figures

  bear, chesterfield, hunting, spofford

• Mrs. Huse & the Bear (Henniker)

  

  In Henniker’s early days, a resourceful farmwife prepares dinner for her bear-hunting husband:

  Marek

  21 September, 2012

  1780s, bear, Henniker, hunting, NH history, SOURCE=Cogswell, stick figures

  bears, cogswell, cooking, dressing, farm, food-temp, Henniker, hunting, nh, supper, wife, woman