![]() ![]() In 1893 Bill Young promised that, if elected Benton County circuit clerk, he would “buy a good set of hounds and let the boys hunt with them.” He won, brought in hounds from Tennessee, and drew up the bylaws for the Northwest Arkansas Fox Hunters Association, the oldest such group west of the Mississippi River. Farmers worked hard to kill wolves, panthers, foxes, and other predators to protect their livestock. The rendered fat was used to make oil lamp fuel, lubricants, and even hair gel. Alvah Jackson is said to have had a bear-fat rendering plant in the 1820s or 1830s in Carroll (now Boone) County, near the mouth of Bear Creek. Settlers-When white settlers moved into the area in the early 1800s, they relied on local wildlife for food and leather and fur pelts for trade. Bear, elk, deer, bison, and small game animals were used for meat and leather, some of which, along with bear oil, was traded to other Native American tribes and Europeans. Native Americans-During the 1700s Osage Indians traveled south from their homes in what is now western Missouri to the Arkansas Ozarks in part to hunt game.
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