"Jackalope" inventor dies

[Jan Ivarsson TransEdit]

There are precursors of the jackalope. See e.g.
http://www.strangescience.net/stfor2.htm
for the Swedish "skvader" (there is an image on the site). Here is the text:
"Years: 1874-1918
Con artists: Håkan Dahlmark, Halvar Friesendahl, Carl Erik Hammarberg and Rudolf Granberg
Now appears in: The Historical Preservation Society in Medelpad
This cross between a female hare and a wood grouse cock was allegedly shot by Dahlmark in 1874. On his birthday in 1907, Dahlmark's housekeeper asked her nephew, Friesendahl, to paint a picture of it. Before his death, Dahlmark donated the painting to the historical society. Inspired to create a "real" skvader, the society's new director, Hammarberg, contacted Granberg, a talented taxidermist, and Granberg obliged him by making a stuffed specimen. In 1918, Hammarberg wrote an article in the local newspaper about the rare skvader, which, thanks to the sale of 3,000 postcards, would soon develop a worldwide reputation. Although some visitors to the historical society's museum are disappointed to find the skvader isn't genuine, few people have taken it very seriously."
Jan Ivarsson
jan.ivarsson at transedit.st
http://www.transedit.st

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And then there's the swimming rabbit that attacked Jimmy Carter. . . .

At 09:14 AM 1/20/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>    DARE has "jackalope," but from only 1955.  The facts from this NEW YORK
>TIMES article are absent in the DARE entry.  OED does not have an entry.
>    Google shows that a few places offer a "jackalope burger," but it's no
>"turducken" or "churkendoose."
>    From the NEW YORK TIMES:
>
>Douglas Herrick, 82, Father of the Jackalope, Is Dead
>
>By DOUGLAS MARTIN
>
>Douglas Herrick, who gets both the credit and the blame for perhaps the
>tackiest totem of the American West, the jackalope - half bunny, hallf
>antelope and 100 percent tourist trap - died on Jan. 6 in Casper, Wyyo. He
>was
>82.
>