No. 794
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
January 28, 2025

A Boy’s Wild Ride.

Six Miles Through the Woods on a Buck’s Back.
January 28, 2025
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Pick-pockets "Working the Crowd.'' | The Pocket Photograph Camera.

A Boy’s Wild Ride.

Wild-Wide For years, an old buck, the leader of the deer herd in the North Woods of the Adirondack region, has maintained an absolute and malicious tyranny of the younger members of his own sex. His treatment rankled, and the other day they made a combined attack upon him, and a boy, the son of Edward Martine, a guide, finally mounted the buck’s back, and experienced for six miles what is probably the liveliest race through thick woods and deep snow which ever fell to the lot of a youth of his years. He was glad enough when the buck came to a stand-still from exhaustion, and happier still when a rescuing party following the buck’s trail on snow-shoes brought him out to a place of shelter.


Illustrated Police News, February 18, 1882.