Ep. 152 - Murder of the Grand Kankakee Marsh

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcasts and Blasts · Mar 28, 2023 · 1h 43m

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 152: Murder of the Grand Kankakee Marsh

"I have never yet found a place that equaled the Kankakee swamps for the variety of game to be found there." – J. Lorenzo Werich, 1920.

Few know the history now. None who experienced it are still alive to tell us the tale. But it was once known as The Everglades of the North, a million acres of marsh and swamp in Indiana and Illinois, with thousands of people living on the wealth of its fish and game, flocks of waterfowl darkening the skies, passenger pigeons, deer and black bear, beaver and muskrat and otter. For decades it was…