Check this out: here is a Confederate Soldier from East Texas wearing Jaguar-skin chaps from a cat killed in the woods around Marshall, TX.
Unfortunately, as far as I know, none of these pelts still exist. But so many explorers recorded seeing the pelts hung up in Indian homes, used for arrow quivers, even hung up in barns in the mid-1800s, & so on.
Nobody has really tried to extract the best/most evidence possible for the Jaguar’s historic habitation in the US (yet) - I started putting together the archives in Texas & now I’m onto Louisiana.
The lack of hard evidence is disappointing. Around 500,000 Jaguars were shot from 1900-1950 across the Americas &, somehow, nothing was preserved.
I would imagine they were largely treated the way the Eastern Cougar was: the last Cougar in the Carolinas was supposedly shot around 1886 — but I know of a box of Eastern Cougar pelts & bones sitting in an old man’s garage from cats his dad shot in the 1950s. They’re in bad shape & soon enough they’ll disappear too.
Maybe these posts will reach someone who has a box with an old Jaguar pelt in it… 🐆
“Never mind that the ACC was 8-6 vs. the SEC last year. Never mind that the SEC hasn't had a team play for a national championship in the past three years. Never mind that Texas A&M and Oklahoma were top-10 teams to open the season but turned out to be pretty bad.” Good stuff here.
@PokeMarr My Boomer neighbor cut my grass because he got so pissed I left it long.
Sorry bud I'm busy on a work trip contributing to your government entitlements (social security)
A path to save college football:
1) Start over. Scrap everything. NIL. Transfers. The playoff. Current conference alignment.
2) Put the NCAA under the Department of Education
3) Create a new set of conferences that make geographic sense
4) Set and enforce academic standards
@CarolinaDerby@Firstlast3350@murphsturph NCGA is going to look completely different in a few months. Plus the previous effort never even made it to a a vote
The previous NCGA refused to fund anything in Charlotte (despite the fact that the CLT metro area contributes ~32% of NC's total tax base) so anything is possible