Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1904 — "HOOSIER HUNTING GROUNDS, OR THE BEAVER LAKE TRAIL.” [ARTICLE]

" HOOSIER HUNTING GROUNDS, OR THE BEAVER LAKE TRAIL.”

“Hoosier Hunting Grounds,” by “Bill Bat,” otherwise John E. Alter of Union township, has just appeared from the press of the Neale Publishing Co. of New York City. The work contains 324 pages, is neatly printed on a good quality of paper, attractively bound, and sells for $1.50 a copy. For the convenience of people of this locality who desires to possess a copy of this work Mr. Alter has bad a few copies shipped here and the same will be found on sale at Fendig’s drug store, although the publishers have charge of the publication and sale of the book and Mr. Alter receives a royalty on the same. “Hoosier Hunting Grounds” is a tale of early days in Northern Jasper and Newton counties and the territory lying near the Kankakee and the former Beaver Lake country when it was infested with all kinds of wild game and the remnants of a few tribes of the noble red man still roamed through the Iroquois valley and the Beaver Lake country. The incidents related are supposed to have occurred in 1841-2 when this country was very sparsely settled and horse-thieves and bandits held sway in the Beaver Lake region, with headquarters at Bogus Island, in Beaver Lake. The Book is quite attractively written and is a very interesting tale of the pioneer days of northwestern Indiana.