Bio: Shanks, John – Kills 8 Wild Young Stock (1894)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Shanks, Murray

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 09 Dec 1909

Early in the fall, John Shanks bought forty head of young stock at the Murray farm north of Withee. At the time he shipped them, eight were so wild they could not get them, so he took two hunters, their, their Winchesters, and a butcher, and went to get them, dead or alive. According to all reports, Buffalo Bill never had such wild adventures as the boys did running down and killing that young stock. John says he will match Dave Shanks against the world for getting over a fence quick. They were gone four days and succeeded in making beef of seven of them, they leaving one to roam the woods.