Knox Borough is located in Clarion County and known as the \u201cHorsethief Capital of the World\u201d. The following article explains how Knox became the “Horsethief Capital of the World”. The following information came from the articles printed in the Clarion Democrat and The Clarion Republican Gazette, dated: October 15, 1885 and November 12, 1885.<\/p>\n
Horsethief Days is a festival that happens in the Borough of Knox, in Western Pennsylvania.\u00a0 It happens the week before school goes back into session.\u00a0 (last week in August) During Horsethief Days there are so many activites you can do. For instance, there are all sorts of dances (country line, adult, and teen), kiddie parade, sidewalk sales,\u00a0bike races, and eventually the Horsethief Parade on the last day of the festival. The activites are fun and very interesting.<\/p>\n
Horsethief Days started back when Sebastian (Boss) Buck started stealing horses and changing them, so when he sold them that the real owners wouldn’t discover that the horses that Boss was selling were theirs.\u00a0 He would sell them down South and then there were other people who were selling them in the North. Boss made a lot of money doing this, plus he really rejoyed it. He didn’t have hardly any education but he was the planner of all the schemes and had the intelligence, power, and daring, to be the leader of the horse thieves.<\/p>\n
Stealing horses and making fake money was a vacation for him. He loved doing what he did.\u00a0 He didn’t care about what other people said because he would mostly do all his work at night, so no one would know about what he did. He even had other members of his clan down south steal horses and bring them here.\u00a0 The reason it was here was because Clarion County was the head quarters or the “Horsethief Capital”. \u00a0Boss never worked alone.\u00a0 He never stole a horse by himself;\u00a0 he had other people with him.\u00a0When the police found out about this, they went and got a warrant for his arrest.\u00a0 He went into hiding for a while and after they gave up on him, he just came out and started stealing horses and making fake money. He was the top criminal of United States of America. \u00a0Finally he got caught and was arrested. \u00a0He straightened up in jail and when he got out, he never stole horses again.\u00a0\u00a0That is how Horsethief Days started, because it is in remembrance of Sebastian (Boss) Buck and all the other horse thieves. \u00a0I really enjoy Horsethief Days.<\/p>\n
Some of the attractions where you can see when this occurred are Brady’s Bend, Clarion Area Historical Society Museum, Clarion Historical and Beaver Creek Nature Area.\u00a0 There are also many hotels you can stay at if you are just visiting the area.\u00a0 I really encourage you to go to Horsethief Days. \u00a0It is a lot of fun, and I don’t want you to miss out. \u00a0Knox, Pennsylvania is the “Horsethief Capital of the World.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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