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This is absolutely incredible, I need to get one of these for the car immediately.

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The Hodag is a reptilian-like mammal found in Northern Wisconsin. The Hodag is described as a creature with the head of a frog, the tail of a dinosaur with spikes on it , the legs of an elephant with sharp claws and big fangs. The Hodag was confirmed to be a hoax. But that didn’t stop it’s legend from becoming popular. The Hodag became the mascot of Rhinelander Wisconsin as well as having a huge statue outside of the Rhinelander Chamber of Commerce with two taxidermy Hodags inside one being a head with light up eyes. The earliest mention of the Hodag is found in the stories of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe.

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Twenty amateur zoologists, under the leadership of Professor MacNeil Weber, formerly of the University of Minnesota, who lives at 2925 Creston Avenue, the Bronx, beat the woods of Van Cortlandt Park all day Sunday in an effort to capture a horned hodag, of which Professor Weber declares but few specimens survive, and which, being a hybrid of unclassified origin, does not appear in scientific works on zoology. According to the hodag enthusiasts, there is only one authentic specimen in America. It was killed by a lumberjack in the employ of the Shevlin Lumber Company twenty years ago and is one of the prized possessions of the Northwestern Lumbermen’s Association. Late in the autumn of 1920 and again in the spring of 1921 boy scouts encamped in dense woods of the park reported having been pursued by a creature apparently about four feet long with four horns on its snout and a succession of spines extending down its back to and over a portion of the tail. Latter reports of the presence or such a creature were received from other sources, all of them agreeing in general description. Professor Weber describes the hodag as having a scaly body,  somewhat resembling in shape that of a large lizard. In general aspect it presents certain characteristics of the South American iguana, but differs from the latter in that the iguana is a slow-moving creature, usually to be found lying on tree branches a short distance from the earth. The hodag is declared to be of an aggressive nature, inclined to attack rather than to retreat when disturbed. The Van Cortlandt hodag is reported to have been found invariably in the lower and more swampy regions of the park, and search for it has been directed especially to swampy thickets abounding in the park region. The hodag, according to best descriptions, is hairy of underbody instead of fish-skinned, like the iguana. It is incapable of great speed because of its short front legs, but using its long hind legs for propulsion it is enabled to spring considerable distances, some say as far as twenty feet. Although no sign of the strange animal was met with during Sunday’s expedition the searchers will try again next Sunday. It is hoped to add the hodag to Professor Hornaday’s collection of other odd animals in the Bronx Park Zoo. From— New-York tribune. (New York [N.Y.)), 21 March 1922. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

Warm spring weather has brought out the hibernating Hodags in the Bloody Basin and Verde countries, and in addition a new peril in the shape of a breed of cousins to the hodag, which the ranchers of that region have named the Hillside Ghyser. The ranchers are becoming very alarmed at the prevalence of hodags and ghysers, and are contemplating holding meetings and getting action in the state legislature to curb the perilous pests. The following letter from a ranch hand in the Bloody Basin is self-explanatory. “E. R. P.,” who wrote it, explains in a marginal note that he wants his communicaton in the Sunday Arizona Republican as that is the only newspaper that penetrates into the fastnessess of the upper Verde and Bloody Basin countries. Bloody Basin, Ariz., April 3, 1913. Editor Republican: Sir—ln your Sunday edition of March 2 I notice an article mentioning the disappearance of the dangerous hodags which have inhabited Bloody Basin and vicinity for some time. Now being a resident here. I wish you would permit me to have a few lines in your valuable column, and I will try to clear up the mystery which has been troubling everyone for so long. Your correspondent was correct when he described their disappearance and no trace of them being found, but as the warm weather has returned, so, also, have the dangerous “hodags” in great numbers, bringing with them the wild and man eating “Hillside Ghysers,” whose resemblance is so close to the “hodags” it is very hard to tell them apart, except when pursued by one, for their speed is nearly equal to that of an express train, and their legs being a trifle longer than the “hodags,” they have a tendency to travel a little up hill while if a person will keep going down grade he will escape them in time. One of the boys, last week, while out riding the range on the fastest horse in the outfit, has nearly caught in a race of twenty-two miles and as a result is carrying a heavy automatic and keeping close to the home ranch. The cowmen of the basin here, and the Verde also, however, would forward a movement to have a bill passed by the present legislature fixing a bounty on their hides of, say, $25. This would induce trappers to exterminate the dangerous beasts. If they are not exterminated it will be difficult for the cowmen to employ cowpunchers who will not take fright at the first brute and leave the country. Hoping that some definite action will be taken in the near future in regard to this matter, and that the beasts will entirely be done away with forever and, if so, let peace and quiet reign once more in thls vicinity. It would be a great load lifted off of everyone's mind who resides here. Very truly yours. AN EMPLOY OF THE BLOODY BASIN CATTLE CO. T.T. Ranch, Bloody Basin, Ariz. ————————————————– Arizona republican. (Phoenix, Ariz.), 13 April 1913. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.