Early settlers and homesteaders hunted for food exclusively, and seasons and bag limits were nonexistent or ignored.

The settlers hunted the snakes with hogs, which ate them; the hogs' fat provided protection against the fangs.

The Dutch and English settlers, hunters, and sportsmen simply hunted it into extinction.

Early settlers hunted them as cattle-stealing vermin, pitting Dutch guns against their poison arrows.

The settlers quickly hunted and killed off all the large and smaller game that was to be found on the tiny peninsula.

The early non-native settlers hunted, trapped beaver and marten, and grazed their stock in the high meadows.

These settlers hunted the moa out of existence by about the year 1500.

The settlers hunted too the turtles which frequented the shores of Cape Mandible.

European settlers hunted it avidly, despite its flesh being distasteful, while converting its habitat to agriculture.

Old-timers could not recall that the early settlers hunted deer very often, although wild game certainly augmented their regular diet.