Arkansas 1856 - The Arkansas Wild Man Heads North - Tirademan!

[Trogluddite]

Admittedly, identification of this as a South Dakota encounter is tenuous INCORRECT.  The story mentions Brant Lake and Sunflower Prairie as known locations.  New York has a Brant Lake, but its in the Adirondacks, without any prairies.  There is also a Brant Lake in southeast South Dakota, and while the terrain nearby is now farmed, it probably was largely prairie in the 1850s.  The story was published in the Jackson (CA) Amador Ledger on June 14, 1856.

 

UPDATE: In reviewing the archived thread, readers and Tirademan believed that this encounter occurred in Arkansas; this second story calls it the "Arkansas wild man" and states that its also been seen in Louisiana.  Further, the correspondent relating the story is from the Upper Red River area; this clearly is not in South Dakota. 

 

The added article from the Hornellsville (NY) Weekly Tribune on May 08, 1856 is, I believe, the specific article found by Tirademan. 

 

                             

Edited October 12 by Trogluddite
To add attribution and clarification.