Says 6 kids but shows 7 kids.Don’t know how true but great story nevertheless. The Mother Who Fed Her 6 Kids for a Winter on One Moose She Shot Herself, Maine, 1933
November 1933. Allagash, Maine. Depression. -30°F.
Husband: Bill Turner died in a logging accident October. No money. No help. 60 miles to town.
Left: Edith Turner, 35. 6 kids. Ages 2-13.
Flour ran out Dec 1. Ate the dog Dec 10.
Dec 15: She saw tracks. Moose.
Took Bill’s .30-30. She’d never shot it. Walked out at dawn. -30°F. Snow to her waist.
Tracked it 6 miles. 9 hours.
Found it at dusk. 1,200 lbs. She shot 5 times. Hit it twice. It ran.
She followed the blood. Found it dead at dark.
She couldn’t move it. So she gutted it there. Cut off one haunch — 150 lbs.
Dragged it 6 miles back. Took till 3am. Collapsed at the door.
Next day she went back with the 13-year-old. They built a travois. Took 3 weeks to get it all home, piece by piece.
Ate moose every day till April. Boiled bones for grease. Tanned the hide for shoes.
Spring, game warden came. Said: “That’s illegal. No license.”
She said: “You arrest me, you bury 6 kids.”
He left. Came back with flour and sugar.
"1933 Maine. -30°. Husband dead. Widow, 35, 6 kids, starving. Ate the dog. Sees moose tracks. Takes rifle she never fired. Tracks 6 miles, 9 hours. Shoots it. Drags 150-lb haunch 6 miles back. Takes 3 weeks to get whole moose home. Saves 6 kids."
#Maine #1933 #Depression #Moose #Widow #Subsistence

What about the photographer that walked out there 60 miles to get her picture

Probably the same one I just asked about on 330s thread.

Hope he at least got a Pulitzer out of it.........

Or at least a kiss on the cheek

Them Maine peoples Definitely aren't the type to stand around all day waiting for someone to come save them

… you and 330 are the reason scam artists can make a living lol

It looks like she is dragging it OUT of the house. That is quite a feat given the snow is nearly ankle deep.

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You reckon that game warden and the photographer was comin by for more than the cookin?