Word: cougar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trigger fingers and the palms of western cougar hunters itched at the news. For the biggest cougar kill of the season (eight cats-in nine days), Jesse Stockdale and his son Url, of Twisp, Wash, this week got a $400 bounty check-$50 a carcass-from the State Game Department...
Like all men who hunt with hounds, cougar hunters are out for more than money. They are proud of their dogs, of their skill, of their sport. A cougar hunter must be as rugged as the country he hunts -the mountain wildernesses of the western U.S. On the snow-covered trail of the biggest cat on the North American continent, sometimes grown to nine or ten feet in length from gorging on deer, the hunter must make as much as 30 miles a day. Creeping along rock ledges, plunging through rough timber, always pressing to keep his dogs within sound...
...Reedsport, Ore., Mrs. Paul Bernhardt and Mrs. Charles Henderson set out to do a little seining, encountered a young cougar along the way, cast their net, brought him back alive...
Audubon writings include sporadic journals, letters, accounts of his meetings with Frontiersman Daniel Boone, Naturalist-Bird Painter Alexander Wilson, eccentric Naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz. There are lively descriptions of coon, possum, bear and cougar hunts, bird biographies, racy reporting of the frontier's human fauna. Most exciting piece is The Prairie. One night Audubon asked shelter at a cabin where he found a strapping woman, her two hulking sons, an Indian. The woman admired Audubon's gold watch so much that though he lay down, he decided not to sleep. The woman did not sleep either. Writes...