THE HERITAGE BUCK
The older I get — a nice thing to continue happening, considering the alternative — the more I value my hunting heritage; the pursuit urge that runs in my veins from DNA inherited from eons of hunter-gatherer ancestors.
Thus it is that I hunt. I hunt wherever I can, whenever the seasons permit. I also hunt in what, at first glance, may seem like odd places. Odd places to me, that is, not to the deer I seek. Like the one I hunted close to the boundary of Milwaukee County in Wisconsin — the buck that provided me with invaluable trail camera photos.
That buck might be the last buck ever to be shot on this particular piece of habitat. However, that’s not the entire story of this. heritage
TRACING HISTORY
Other than one or two fur traders, who weren’t permanent residents, the only residents of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, before 1836 were Menominee and Potawatomi Indians. The U.S.government hastened settlement by advertising land for sale in that part of Wisconsin at $1.25 an acre, and thousands of New Englanders came in. A second land sale was held in 1839, resulting in a heavy influx of European immigrants, the first of them arriving in May of that year.
