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

Someone has quite an imagination.

I am currently reading an auto-biography by Olive A Fredrickson called The Silence of the North.

It sounds like the story Bruce T. posted borrowed heavily from it and embellished quite a bit.

My exact thoughts, The photo is fake (definitely AI), the story is a corruption of the Olive Fredrickson story.

330 and Bruce both posting AI slop
I thought trappers could read sign

I think your first sentence...... oh nevermind, lol.

We're you going to be naughty?

Me? Surely you can't mean me........

Did it involve a van?

Why would she drag the antlers back?

It took three weeks to drag it home piece by piece. By some miracle I guess, nothing ate it in the meantime.

I well remember my grandparents talking about back in the day the local game wardens would not give citations to people caught with illegal game if they truly needed the meat.True or not I still find it a interesting story.

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

Heres a true story.
Charlie Eshaw trapped with his mother out at Big Abitibi Lake near Lowbush back in the 70s.
They lived and trapped on the family trapline all winter.
The winter his mother died,he put her in the woodpile to keep the big varmints off her,and took her to the rail line in spring with the winter cache of fur.

Yeah… naw.

Well it was at least better than you posting u renewed ur drivers license

So she walked 6 miles cross country at -30 below in 9 hours in snow up to her waist? Yeah, who would question that? Like Dad always said, "If you are going to tell a fish tale, at least make it believable".

What I always found interesting was the fact back in the day the game wardens would allow the taking of illegal game if the family really needed the meat.