“A woman belonging to a family residing on the bank of the creek about half a mile above the first fork [on Pine Creek] was washing at the creek accompanied by four or five small children, when one of them looking up the stream exclaimed, ‘What a handsome big red dog is coming!’ The animal made a halt on the top of the bank within fifty feet of the children and stood looking at them. Another boy cried, ‘It isn’t a dog, it is a panther!’ At that moment a cat came out of the house and the panther made a spring at her when she ran up a tree followed by the panther. The cat leaped from the tree and the panther seized her just as she struck the ground. The family hurried into the house and closed the doors and thus escaped. After the panther devoured the cat he stood looking at the house and moved along the path. In about half an hour a neighbor came along with a dog and a gun. The panther continued to move slowly off and the woman came out and acquainted the neighbor with the circumstances. He immediately started in pursuit and the panther, being driven up a tree by the dog, was brought to the ground by a well-aimed shot. It was a very large one, measuring four and a half feet from the tip of the nose to the tail.” (Tome 1854: 14-15)