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the sully county watchman (clifton, dakota [s.d.]) 1883-1894 — wild man

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1885-10-31
Location: onida, south dakota, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the sully county watchman (clifton, dakota [s.d.]) 1883-1894 · 1885-10-31 · page 5
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1885-10-31 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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A WILD MAN. Living for Yearn I11 a Cave Under the Vronid and Evading Paraalt— A Remarkable Story. "How is your wild man getting along?" asked an American reporter the other day of the gentleman who gave him an account recently of the excitement in Marshal county Over the appearance of a veritable wild man in that section. "Why, hadn't you heard?" he anv swered in some apparent surprise, "we have captured him." "How did you get him?" asked the reporter. "Weil, I'll tell you the whole story," said he, "you see the morning after we had run the wild man to h/8 den, as you stated in your previous article, ...

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