Yes, they held it in livestock barns and was freezing. When I get back home from Florida I will try to find article on Sedalia auction and post on here.

Furlover,

I talked to my father and he said he knew your Dad quite well. He remembered him being a coon hunter with English/Bluetick hounds with one particular one named Mike. Is he remembering your father?

He sure is. Keller's Mike was inducted into the English Hall of Fame. Coon hunting, ball playing and then fur buying were dad's greatest passions. When dad hunted he growled about trappers, but once he started buying fur he preferred trapped coons. I heard him give many a lecture to coon hunters about letting their dogs chew their coon up. Some would say we're training them. Dad would tell them if their dogs were any darn good they could grab them by throat and kill them quickly.

LOL. He also mentioned Suzy/Susie. He also mentioned a frightening episode while on a UKC night hunt.

I remembered a couple other buyers who came to the Missouri auction. Delmar Logue and Paul Mershmann. Delmar was a good ole boy. Always bought for someone else. Don Bauer from Illinois or maybe Ohio? Can’t remember where he was from.

Keller’s fur shed was in town and none of the family lived nearby. Bud told me back when fur was high and he had a ton of fur bought, that he slept a lot of nights in the fur shed (I’d bet with a shotgun nearby) for fear of someone breaking in and stealing fur.
That’s not a concern these days lol.

You could probably leave your shed open, lights glaring and a huge free sign displayed and your coon count wouldn't go down! LOL.

Keller's Susie was my dog. Unfortunately, when I was about 16 I became more interested in boys than coon hunting.
Should have stayed with coon hunting. I went to a lot of UKC hunts with my dad.
Susie was ok to him but he could be a little rough with her when she screwed up.
My cousin, Jerry Keller and Gary Mitchell both hunted her in hunts.

Mike was THE dog for dad, he never found one in 30 years that he ever thought measured up to Mike.

did prouhet ever attend the auction

He did sleep with shotgun at fur house and when dad couldn't stay another guy stayed there.
He was broken into once and we put out word to other buyers of who it might be.
We could identify one set of coons stolen.


Jim Triplett called dad and said one of suspects was there with coons we could identify. Dad asked if he could stall him. Dad called our local sheriff to tell him and Sheriff had Newton county go arrest him and seize coons.
Our sheriff called dad and said he was going down to get him. Dad said by gosh I'm going with you. Sheriff said only if you promise not to take gun or physically harm him.

I remember Delmar and Mershman. There was a buyer from down around Frederickstown but can't remember his name.

Lots of names from the past.

Does anyone remember Paul Gregg? He was a coon hunter and also logged some. He lived near Adrian I think.

Furlover,

My Dad mentioned the roughness with Susie. It involved a UKC night hunt and a skunk! Enough said.

It always warms my heart when I hear a story about a thief being caught!