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A big bear hunt in Franklin Parish, 1851
John Hutchins, the son of Col. Anthony Hutchins, one of Natchez' earliest frontiersmen, said he killed 107 bears in one year in the late 1700s.
Indian Agent John Sibley said in 1803 that a party of Choctaws — 15 men, women and children — went on a hunt on the northern end of the Sabine River between Louisiana and Texas and reported killing 118 bears, adding that the bear population had grown and many were coming down the Red.
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