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- Mayor Ford, Kiwanis light up Capaha Park's diamond (4/16/24)1
- The rise and fall of Capaha Park's wooden grandstand (4/9/24)
- Death of Judge Pat Dyer, prosecutor of the famous peonage case here in 1906 (4/2/24)2
- A third steamer Cape Girardeau was christened 100 years ago (3/26/24)
- Cape Girardeau christens its namesake (3/19/24)
- The humanist philosophy of Lester Mondale (3/12/24)1
Hunting deer in the 1890s
(My father is standing at right with his half-sister's son, Wade McCarty, in this undated photo.)
Although my father -- Louis Sanders -- was an avid hunter, I can't recall him ever going deer hunting. He usually saved his shells for squirrels and rabbits and, toward the end of his hunting career, groundhogs. The only evidence I have of him hunting deer is a handful of faded photos that show him as a young man, dressing out the meat from a kill.
Still, I thought of my Pop, when I stumbled upon this story about an early deer hunt. I think Dad would have enjoyed reading this article about how things were done in the 1890s.
Longtime Missourian photographer and writer Garland D. "Frony" Fronabarger loved the outdoors and took a lot of photographs of fishermen and hunters with their prizes.
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