Pioneer Life, Or, Thirty Years a Hunter

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Stackpole Books, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 173 pages
  • The story of a western Pennsylvania settler, farmer, and hunter
  • Fire hunting, stalking, hounding, and stand hunting for white-tailed deer and elk

Known as the Pine Creek deerslayer of the Alleghenies, Philip Tome was a pioneer farmer who turned to deer hunting for survival. Hunting the headwaters of the Pine, Kettle, Sinnemahoning, and Allegheny Rivers, he shot with a .45 caliber Kentucky-style Flintlock rifle and practiced fire hunting, stalking, hounding, and stand hunting over salt licks. He also captured elk and hunted panthers and bears.

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Birth and Early Life
1
Hunting the Elk
7
Capturing a Live Elk
10
Face of the Country
17
Face of the Country continued
25
Danger from Rattlesnakes
31
Wolf and Bear Hunting
38
Another Elk Hunt
42
Reminiscences of Cornplanter
121
Indian Eloquence
128
APPENDIX
139
Who Was Philip Tome?
141
Tome Miscellany
149
Tomes in Warren County 1850 Census
152
Short Sketch of Cornplanter
153
Cornplanter Indians and Their Schools
155

ElkHunting on the Susquehanna
51
ElkHunting continued
61
Nature Habits and Manner of Hunting Elk
67
Elk and Bear Hunting in Winter
71
Hunting on the Clarion River
80
Hunting and Trapping
87
The Bear Its Nature and Habits
95
Hunting Deer at Different Seasons
102
Nature and Habits of the Panther Wolf and Fox
108
Rattlesnakes and Their Habits
112
Distinguished Lumbermen ETC
117
Lycoming County
156
Potter County
157
Tioga County
160
Warren County
162
Gazeteer of Towns etc
163
Gazetteer of Rivers Streams etc
164
Biographical Index
166
Tome Land Warrants for Lycoming County
168
Bibliography
171
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