The first winter (1840), a father and brothers killed forty-seven deer, besides wolves, foxes and other game.

The evidence

• “"The first winter (1840) father and brothers killed fortyseven deer, besides wolves, foxes and other game. It was not an unusual sight to see fifty deer come down to the west side of the river to drink.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/19-pioneer-women.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 496 / book p. 460

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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