Tuesday, July 31, 2018

How the Simpson family (no kin to me) rid western Dade County MO of wolves

Wolves were a menace to the settlers' stock and became so bold that steps had to be taken to combat them. The Simpson boys began the work of extermination. They secured a quantity of poison, and would kill a deer, and after thoroughly poisoning it, would drag it over the prairie, and hundreds of wolves were killed in this way.

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