September 1908 Real Photo Postcard - Edward Oscar Boak / Packing Deer On A Saddle / Deer Hunting

To pack a deer on horseback: first, if your horse is green in the business, let him smell the deer, pet him, and, if necessary, blindfold him until you get the carcass lashed in place. Even then you may have trouble, I have seen a mule get such a conniption fit at the smell of blood that he bucked himself, deer, and saddle, off a cut-bank into a swift river; the girth broke, and that saddle is going yet. It may be necessary to smear some of the deer's blood on your horse's nose to kill the scent. LINK to the complete article - bookdome.com/outdoors/Camping-Woodcraft/Packing-Deer-On-A...

From the Boundary Creek Times newspaper (Greenwood, B.C.) - 4 September 1908 - Mr. E. O. Boak, president of the Kettle Valley Fish, and Game Association, was the first of the local sports to bag a deer. Mr. Boak was early on the ground and about ten miles up Boundary Creek, he shot a fine specimen at seven o'clock on the morning of the opening of the season.

Message on back of postcard reads: Anaconda, B.C. - September 24, 1908 - W. B. Ross, Am sorry you are not as Usual. You are Welcome to Have it all. How is everybody? E.O. Boak

Edward Oscar Boak
Birth - 27 March 1870 in Adel, Dallas, Iowa, USA
Death - 3 April 1936 (aged 66) in Molson, Okanogan County, Washington, USA

During his time living in Anaconda, British Columbia, Canada Edward Oscar Boak worked as a smelter shift boss for B.C. Copper Company Ltd. which was located in Greenwood, B.C. He lived in Canada from c. 1908 to 1915.

Five generations of Boaks would work in the logging woods, following the tradition that Ted “Paul Bunyan” Boak set at the Mason County Logging Company. This is their story. The five generations of Boaks have at least two things in common: they are all loggers and they are all hunters. The logging and hunting traditions in the family can be traced back to Edward Oscar Boak and his wife Rosina. The Boaks lived in the Okanogan region of northern Washington State, near the town of Omak. In an area now dominated by apple and cherry orchards growing in a narrow band along the Okanogan River, Edward Oscar pursued an interest in mining from his early years in Pennsylvania, and logging in the vast pine forests on the plateau, east of the river. Edward Oscar also maintained a hunting lodge that saw a steady stream of guests and friends that enjoyed hunting in the bountiful open pine country. LINK to the article (including photos of Edward Oscar Boak) - rootsofmotivepower.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Roots-O...

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