Fifty Pound Beaver (1875)

BEAVER

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 2/10/2020 at 15:36:37

Dubuque Daily Times, Thursday, Jun 03, 1875, Dubuque, IA, Page: 3

The other day a Shelby boy, while hunting, shot and killed a monstrous beaver, by the old dam site. The animal weighed fifty pounds. You don’t often find, in this State at least, a beaver as heavy as that by a dam site.