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Old hunters used to have to camp at what was the Hub Caldwell place(now the Ranger Station.) They would all leave camp in the daytime, tohunt and while they were gone, panthers would come into camp and carryaway their collection of deer skins. The hunters would find them burriedon Rough Ridge. The place they crossed the creek to recover the skinsthey named "Lucky Button." In an interveiw on July 21, 1937, Mr. Mitch Sutton talked to HiramWilburn about panthers. Mr. Sutton lived near Mt. Sterling and was aboutsixty years old at the time. Mitch knew about the panther caught by JohnJ. Hannah and others about 1884 or 1885. He said I had a personalexperience with a panther myself, I had been fishing by the Big Bend Areaand was walking home with a string of fish about 1905. It followed meabout five miles. At the time I was working for Haddock-France Lumber Co.In following me, the panther kelpt mostly behind and out of sight, butwould run up on the steep bank above me and look down and growl. I sawits tracks next day and knew it had to be a panther.
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