The tales were transmitted from logging camp to logging camp, growing more incredible with each re-telling, like today’s viral internet memes. In the author’s introduction, forester and conservationist William Cox expresses a great affection for lumberjack adventure yarns and the surreal brutes featured in them.
While the book’s creators could have hardly predicted it, Fearsome Creatures has become a definitive resource of American mythology nearly a hundred years after it was first published. Twenty such oddities are showcased in this 50-page volume, with their appearance and behavior described in detail. Given the bizarre and often bloodthirsty nature of the fauna depicted within, it can only be a comfort that they reside purely within the rich folklore of early lumberjacks. Cox and Coert DuBois, Originally published by Press of Judd & Detweiler, Inc., 1910, Re-printed by Kessinger Publishing, 2007Īmongst the multitudes of wildlife field guides, Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods (With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts) is unique in that it deals exclusively with animals that do not exist. Wentling unslung the sack and looked in.Amazon by By William T. Suddenly the burden lightened and the weeping ceased. It to hop into a sack, in which he was carrying it home, when Made a clever capture by mimicking the squonk and inducing Anthony Park, Minnesota, had a disappointing experience with a squonk near Mont Alto. Wentling, formerly of Pennsylvania, but now at St. Moving about it may then be heard weeping under the boughs Squonk hunters are most successful on frosty moonlight nights, when tears are shed slowly and the animal dislikes Or when surprised and frightened, it may even dissolve itself When cornered and escape seems impossible,
Hunters who are good at tracking areĪble to follow a squonk by its tear-stained trail, for the animal In fact it is said, by people who are best able to judge, to be the Which is covered with warts and moles, it is always unhappy The squonk is of a very retiring disposition, generally travelingĪbout at twilight and dusk. Said to be fairly common in the hemlock forests of that State. Of Pennsylvania have ever heard of the quaint beast, which is
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