. History of Dwight, from 1853 to 1894. ^4 Geo. Conant. IIISTOIIY OF DWIGIIT. ILLINOIS. This house, standing on the edge ofGrande Prairie, had been for some sea-sons occupied only as a hunting lodgeby the owner, Mr. James Spencer, ofChicago, and his brothers, all ardentsportsmen. Often they had guests, in-cluding many English army officers andtourists who had brought letters to theSpencer family, and were eager for thesport then to be found on our plains asnowhere else. Mr. Spencers tract of almost virginpraire, with the vast level stretchesbeyond it, constituted a natural gamepreserve—if
. History of Dwight, from 1853 to 1894. ^4 Geo. Conant. IIISTOIIY OF DWIGIIT. ILLINOIS. This house, standing on the edge ofGrande Prairie, had been for some sea-sons occupied only as a hunting lodgeby the owner, Mr. James Spencer, ofChicago, and his brothers, all ardentsportsmen. Often they had guests, in-cluding many English army officers andtourists who had brought letters to theSpencer family, and were eager for thesport then to be found on our plains asnowhere else. Mr. Spencers tract of almost virginpraire, with the vast level stretchesbeyond it, constituted a natural gamepreserve—if preserve that could becalled which was open to the worldand walled by the horizon only. The long bush grass of the prairie,with wild vines and llowers, affordedrare hiding-places for birds, and asproof of the then great variety ofsuch game stands the record that onone day in October, 1858, the Spencerbrothers and their guests killed prairiechicken, quail, snipe, woodcock, plov-er, wild geese, wild turkeys and ducks! In the early summer Mr.
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