"Fight with Wild Boar"

November 18, 1909—John Benham, an Adirondack guide, who won distinction for several years in canoe paddling contests in sportsman's shows in New York, had a thrilling fight with a wild boar a few days ago, at Big Tupper Lake, and succeeded in killing the beast with a woodsman's hatchet only after a fight that threatened to end his own life.

The boar was one of several imported from the Black Forest and placed on an immense preserve known as Litchfield Park, near Big Tupper Lake. The boars managed to break out from the preserve. Guides of the Upper Adirondacks are beginning to take cognizance of the slaughter of fawns and does by the wild boars, and an organized hunt is regarded as probable, in the hopes of exterminating them.

Ticonderoga Sentinel 


Aurora Ramsay works in the Brewster Research Library at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown.

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