Pennsylvania Deer And Their Horns PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... GRANDSON of George Ott, one of the original buffalo hunters of Central Pennsylvania and himself slayer of many hundreds of bison on the plains of the Great West, Daniel Ott of Selin's Grove, Snyder County, is one of the historically noteworthy personages of the Keystone State. In company with Hon. George W. Wagenseller, editor of the Middleburg Post, and J. Herbert Walker, associate editor of the Lewisburg Journal, the writer recently visited the venerable nimrod at his cozv home on the outskirts DANIEL OTT, Born May 27, 1820, A Pennsylvanian Who Has Killed Many Buffaloes in The West. of the quaint old town of Selin's Grove. Nimble and mentally alert, despite his 95 years, the old hunter, who is still a handsome man and has the aquiline nose and tight drawn lips which are usually signs of character, greeted his guests cordially, and unfolded to them the marvelous story of his life. Frequently during the narrative he told jokes, which convulsed his hearers, and his fine amber colored eyes, as clear as those of the poet Keats, were alive with keenness and humor. Daniel Ott was born in Selin's Grove on May 27, 1820, being the son of Daniel Ott, Sr., (1784-1852) and grandson of George Ott, (17451814), one of the original pioneers on the Karoondinha, now known as Penn's Creek. George Ott, who was a native of Chester County, took up 400 acres of wild land in what is now Snyder County in 1796, when that region still abounded with wild beasts and roving Indians. In Daniel Ott's own words let him describe his thrilling life's pilgrimage. "I was born in the house where I now reside, and am of Dutch and English ancestry. My father and grandfather, the pioneers, were not hunters in the modern meaning of the word, as the game came up to their doors...