The Ben Lilly Legend, Dobie

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http://www.amazon.com/Lilly-Legend-Frank-Paperback-Library/dp/0292707282/?tag=treasurenet01-20

The Ben Lilly Legend


copyright 1950, J. Frank Dobie

Good story about perhaps the best hounds-man to ever chase Bear and Lion.

I had read a little about Lilly here and there over the years, but was a little disappointed in this account.

Dobie gathered some of Lilly's diaries, and part of a book that Lilly himself had started, but most of the stories were generalizations, without much detail.

For someone that killed many animals with a knife only, I expected a little more action.

Still a decent read, but I feel it could have been much better.

 

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In Mer Rouge, LA there is a statue of Ben in front of the post office. Even when I was a kid growing up in Morehouse Parish all of the old timers still talked of Ben. It is said he could stand inside a 55 gallon barrel and jump out of it without using his hands and none of his body would touch the barrel. He was a legend