harboring wild game worth a king’s ransom to be defaulted by posterity, for its

acreage, Wapanocca Lake held just about the nation’s heaviest population of waterfowl. At times, it staggered

credulity.

Civil War times, however, Wapanocca Lake seems to have been little known

sportingly. The late Captain Bill Allen, one of Memphis’ grandest elder

sportsmen, told of a camp-hunt he made shortly after the surrender of

Appomattox. He stood in the willows in Wapanocca Lake and with a muzzleloading

shotgun bagged 167 ducks in a day.

Indian territory that, on September 7, 1886, the prestigious famous Wapanocca Outing Club, immortalized

by Nash Buckingham in so many of his writings, was established.