Animals: Tennessee Boar Hunt

To the average U. S. citizen, the wild boar is an exotic hog who lives in the Indian marshes and whose life is made miserable by handsome Bengal Lancers pursuing him with spears. This month in the rugged Great Smoky Mountains of southeastern Tennessee in Cherokee National Forest, a few U. S. sportsmen will have a chance to gain closer acquaintance with the animal.

Tennessee's boars, descended from Russian stock imported and freed by South Carolina planters some three decades ago, bear about the same relation to domestic pigs as a Tasmanian...

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