From the front page of The French Broad Hustler, Hendersonville, N.C., Thursday, February 22, 1917
Mrs. Wright Is a Good Shot and Bags Unusual Game Out Near Home on Shaw's Creek
Perhaps the largest hawk ever killed in this county in recent years was that one killed by Mrs. Wright, wife of John Wright, last Thursday, who lives on the Shaw's creek road near Yael.
Mrs. Wright shouldered a shot gun and fired one time, killing a monstrous bird whose winged from tip to tip measured four feet. The hawk had hold of a full grown hen when shot. Some time before this Mrs. Wright killed another hawk, but not so large. It is said that the extreme cold weather hd scarcity of food forced this large bird down from one of the mountain ranges of this section, where they are known to exist.
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