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  • New Wildlife Refuge Dedicated After African American

    02/22/2005 8:13:35 PM PST · by WKB · 86 replies · 822+ views
    WLBT ^ | 02/22/05
    The first National Wildlife Refuge in this country named for an African American, is now in the Mississippi Delta, near Hollandale. It is the Holt Collier Wildlife Refuge. Collier was a freed slave, who had served in the Confederate Army, and led President Theodore Roosevelt on a legendary bear hunt, near Onward, Mississippi in 1902. When Roosevelt didn't get a bear, Collier caught one and tied it to a tree. Roosevelt would not shoot it and the press corps traveling with him named it his Teddy Bear. The name stuck. The Holt Collier National Wildlife Refuge is now 1,438 acres,...