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dewey county advocate (timber lake, s.d.) 1910-1913 — wild man

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1912-06-28
Location: timber lake, south dakota, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: dewey county advocate (timber lake, s.d.) 1910-1913 · 1912-06-28 · page 08
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1912-06-28 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “wild man”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... xround the Indians captured tho Wild Man, snarling ahd Wild Man, but i 03 ^c^jL.i ghost may find his way upon his long dark jour ney. After that they light no more fires, as they consider that the dead man has had time to finish his Journey. Whether Ascenslo grew deranged suddenly or whether it was a slow And gradual process, no one can ever know, yet the fact remains that he came to belteve in the religion of the Indians with seme variations and startling effects of his own. Essllevlng, as be did, that death was only a road by which man passed Into a longer and more enduring, though not necessarily an eternal ...

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