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seeking new habitat following drought conditions in the west in the 1600s, may have continued eastward in their range had Europeans not eradicated them. To date, though no archaeological evidence has been found, writings of another Moravian missionary, John Heckewelder, (Thirty Thousand Miles With John Heckewelder) who crossed the Alleganies in the 1770s, recorded buffalo in this region. Another report (The Journal of a British Officer) is from an officer serving under General Braddock and records a salt lick used by “deer, buffaloes and bears” in the area known today as Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and yet another reference can be found in letters written in 1760 from the Pittsburgh (Fort Pitt) area (Bouquet Papers, British Museum) McKnight writes in Jefferson County Pennsylvania Her Pioneers and People the following: “There were originally in the State over fifty species of wild, four-footed animals. We had three hundred and twenty-five species and sub-species of birds, and our waters, including Lake Erie, had one hundred and fifty species of fish…To substantiate the fact, I will here mention a circular hunt of 1760 in the center of the State…a circle of territory with a cleared patch in the center…the record of (game taken included) one hundred and eleven buffaloes…while a large herd of these animals broke the circle. These circular hunts continued all over the State until about 1860…” Locally, he quotes from the Kittanning Gazette in March of 1828 wherein was printed a legal notice for the great circular hunt which helped to fi-
nance the bridge at Mayport. The eight resolutions of the committee set the boundaries of the circle, set the time and procedure for the march, set the purpose for the funds thus raised to be the building of the bridge, ruled how dogs in the party were to be restrained, named the men charged with setting the boundary stakes, outlined the positioning of the captains, prohibited spirituous liquors and mandated the publishing of the proceedings in the Kittanning papers. Putting all that aside, many species of wildlife were depicted by McKnight. To set the scene for the Historical Society’s emphasis on “Early Peoples” during Groundhog Festival Week, an upcoming History Daycamp scheduled from August 9 through August 13 and fall workshops beginning in September, the Reschini Room is temporary home to these drawings and a wonderful selection of the taxidermists’ art, courtesy of Mark Jordan of Jordan’s Taxidermy and Barney Wehrle of Mahoning Valley Milling. Jordan’s fox, turkey and duck on the wing, together with Wehrle’s wolf, bears and deer fill the space visually while the scent of fern and bee balm pervaded the air during Festival week. Anyone who has owned a border collie will recognize its stance and stare in the form of
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