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In Pennsylvania Its Remarkable History, Habits and Extinction, with Interesting Side Lights on the Folk and Forest Lore of the Alleghenian Region of the old Keystone State BY John C. French Roulette, Potter County, Pa., With Chapters by
The Wild Pigeons on Leaving us Repair to Some Undiscovered
Altoona, Pennsylvania
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Table of Contents
| PREFACE | Dedication and Introductory Preface |
| CHAPTER I | Retrospective Lore and Legend-Characteristics, Habitat and Description |
| CHAPTER II | Customs, Flights and Nesting Grounds – Last Appearance, Of Noted Birds in the Central Hardwood Belt |
| CHAPTER III | Development, Food and Decline
Shooting and Netting the Birds |
| CHAPTER IV | In Pennsylvania and Elsewhere
A Tale of Reliable Observations by John Lyman, a Pioneer |
| CHAPTER V | Observations in the Susquehanna Valley, Told by a Pioneer Octogenarian – Reveries and Reflections |
| CHAPTER VI | Some Kentucky Observations, by Alexander Wilson
Vivid description of Sacred Pigeon Dance by the Indian Wolf Hunter Dan Gleason |
| CHAPTER VII | Comments of an Eminent Observer
John J. Audubon, in Kentucky The Green River Nestings |
| CHAPTER VIII | The Romance of Numbers and Testimony of Living Men as to Reality of the Figures Considered Marvelous |
| CHAPTER IX | The Rate of Reproduction and Decline
Passing of the Beech Forests Indian Legend of Hopah, the Pigeon |
| CHAPTER X | Nesting Cities and Extinction of This Bird
Comments of a Forester on Signs of an Approaching Nesting |
| CHAPTER XI | Present Day Economics and Influence As Food Supply
Sketch of Indian and Pioneer Life |
| CHAPTER XII | Some Information About their Characteristics, Classification and Peculiarities – Ornithology |
| CHAPTER XIII | Other American Varieties Also Noticed
Development from Egg Observed and Given a Careful Analysis |
| CHAPTER XIV | Some Adaptable Foreign Varieties
Structure and Mode of Flight Process of Netting the Adult Birds |
| CHAPTER XV | Their Prehistoric Environment
Results and Examples of Conjecture, Investigation and Imagination The Solution |
| CHAPTER XVI | An Observer’s Recollection of the Passenger Pigeon, Once So Numerous,
Now Extinct
From Potter County Journal, October 21, 1903 By Edwin Haskell |
| CHAPTER XVII | Our Forest Followed the Passenger Pigeons
Rise, Activity and Decline of a Hemlock Lumber Town in Pennsylvania – Cross Forks From Munsey’s Magazine (Abridged.) |
| CHAPTER XVIII | More About The Passenger Pigeon (From the Pennsylvania Sportsman,
Scranton, Pa.)
By R.P. Robinson Member of Wilkes-Barre Camp No. 103 |
| CHAPTER XIX | “THE PIONEERS” (Abridged) |
| CHAPTER XX | The Bingham Estate
Story of the Original Owners of Large Tracts of Land in Potter and Adjoining Counties. Written by Mahlon J. Colcord (From the Potter County Journal) |
| CHAPTER XXI | Romances of An Old Forest Road Once Used by the Marquis de Lafayette
(The First Natural Gas Well) (By John C. French) |
| CHAPTER XXII | The Indian Marathon March of Captain Titus (From Olean Evening Times, John C. French) |
| CHAPTER XXIII | From Forest Lore and Observations
Conservation and Desolation (Written by John C. French) |
| CHAPTER XXIV | A Hit From the Shoulder. The Other Side of the Question. Why Forests Were Destroyed (By an Old Forester) |
| CHAPTER XXV | Biographical Outlines |
| CHAPTER XXVI | Biographical Data of Otis J.P. Lyman, A Pioneer of Potter County,
Pennsylvania
With Story of Taking Pigeons For New York Market (By John C. French) |
| CHAPTER XXVII | The Passenger Pigeon: Its Last Phase By Henry W. Shoemaker |
| CHAPTER XXVIII | Last Survivor of Wild Pigeons Dead. Martha, Captive in Cincinnati Zoo, Survived Loss of Mate Just Four Years – Lived to be 29 Years Old. New York, September 13, 1914 |
| CHAPTER XXIX | What Exterminated the Passenger Pigeon? The True Story, Related by One of the Most Famous Pigeon Trappers in America – C.W. Dickinson (From the Altoona Tribune) |
| CHAPTER XXX | Flight of Pigeons
Frank Kiess Owns Net in Which He Caught Hundreds of Birds James V. Bennett, Pigeoneer |
| CHAPTER XXXI | How the Passenger Pigeon Came to an Untimely End, By Dr. B.H. Warren |
| CHAPTER XXXII | Pigeon Flocks in Wisconsin. Supposedly Extinct Wild Variety Hover Over Different Sections |
| CHAPTER XXXIII | The Dove Not A Peace Bird |
| CHAPTER XXXIV | Stray Passenger Pigeons Reported by a Rochester Observer Familiar With the Birds (From the New York Sun, January, 1919.) |
| CHAPTER XXXV | Wild Pigeon Hunter a Kidnapper. Dying Confession Clears Mystery of Forty Years |
| Congratulations to site guest and contributor, Marion Scherer, who typed THE WHOLE THING. Thank you Marion from all of us. Marion is Great Grandaughter of the author. They are deccended from the French line of Middlebury Township in Tioga County PA. | Dear Joyce, Fait accompli!! Or as they say
in the south "TA DAH."
Attached are the two final chapters in the Passenger Pigeon book. I hope that you and the site guests enjoy the book. Regards, Marion |
Dear Joyce and Friends,
Thank you so much for typing the JC French collection for use on the web. A great contribution to active investigation of the Passenger Pigeon. Perhaps the Portsmouth, Ohio specimen mounted under glass will be an addition to your list of extant specimens. From my bird research log:
June 3, 1996, Portsmouth, OH Public Library, Local History Room. I have seen the mounted specimen here during my researches. The specimen is in a display case with a free standing placard (about 4x8 inches) that says, “The Last Passenger Pigeon seen in Scioto County Killed about 1882 on Offnere St. Hill by Arthur H. Bannon Presented by Henry T. Bannon.”
Tom Bain
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First Added to the Site on 23 JULY 2001
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