Slaughtered to extinction: Passenger pigeons in Michigan
By Bill Loomis / Special to The Detroit News Businessman, mayor and outdoorsman William Butts Mershon lived his life in Saginaw. He was born in 1856, and as a teen in the 1870s he loved to hunt. His father, who owned a lumber mill in Saginaw, went hunting with William and their bird dogs Sport, … Continue Reading →