Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . ion, while I was making hay neartheir camp, three squaws came with long sticks orcanes and helped turn the hay. When done, theysignified by signs that they had done so because Ihad given them flour and salt. The deer continued plentiful for a number of years,but the constant settling up of the town, and the kill-ing of them, made their appearance very scarce, sothat the last deer known to have been killed in thetown was by myself in 1856. A frequent and very troublesome ann
Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . ion, while I was making hay neartheir camp, three squaws came with long sticks orcanes and helped turn the hay. When done, theysignified by signs that they had done so because Ihad given them flour and salt. The deer continued plentiful for a number of years,but the constant settling up of the town, and the kill-ing of them, made their appearance very scarce, sothat the last deer known to have been killed in thetown was by myself in 1856. A frequent and very troublesome annoyance to thesettlers was the great number of wolves that made thenight hideous with howling, and would even attack thestock if suitable care was not taken to keep the cattlein places of safety. In the winter it was sometimesunsafe, even in the day time, to be unarmed, as theyfollowed teams of horses or oxen, watching everyopportunity to attack them. One winter in 1847,between Christmas and New Year, Conrad Scheele,a young man living with me, started out with the oxteam and sleigh to go to Clarks Corners, in Spring-. From Mitchells New School Geography. DANE COUNTY TOWNS—BEEEY. 273 field, to get a few bushels of potatoes from JosephKnippschild, and after being gone about an hour,came back to arm himself, because the wolves were sonumerous and savage he could not make any progresson the road. On Table Bluff, the highest bluff in the town, sec-tion 29, there are a number of Indian mounds thatare in the form of small hills, others Ions or oblone;,while some of them take the shape of animals, suchas bears, snakes, etc. On section 27, where my landis, there are several long ones, also having the form ofanimals. There is evidence on sections 21 and 29 that theaborigines were engaged in mining or digging forsome valuable minerals or flints, before the white set-tlers came to this town. Large excavations are seenshowing where the soil has been thrown out for somepurpose that we are n
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