sketch by Sherryl Guthrie Miller"John Dodge was a successful hunter. He often went off to hunt bear alone. On one occasion he and James Wallace along with several other men started in pursuit of a bear, a Mr. Bruin had finally brought to bay and crippled. The dogs rushed upon him, and the bear seized one and was proceeding to squeeze him, when Mr. Dodge rushed up to save his dog. The bear then loosened his hold upon the dog, attacked Dodge with fury, biting him severely on the ghigh, wrist, and arm. James Wallace had no gun, and asked the other men for one in order that he might shoot at the bear. They ran away in fright. Mr. Wallace in desperation, threw himself ulpon the savage beast. He drew Mr. Dodge's knife and ripped the bears' abdomen from breast bone around to the backbone. The exhausted Dodge with Wallace's help was all the night going the ten miles home. Neeless to say that the heroes of this affair were not very cordial toward the hunters who had so ingloriously fled." From "History of Union Co., KY."
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