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County frame, 1880 baseline
The great predators belong to the baseline's world, not to the modern record. The South Bend build carried wolves, panthers and bears whole, with last-record evidence sized, against Chapman's 1880 account. That treatment is the county's, and this section does not duplicate it township by township, because no carrier reached gives a last wolf, a last panther or a last bear for Liberty Township by date or place. What can be said at this ground's strength is structural: the township Chapman described was hunting and travel country (Before North Liberty, banked), its woods and marsh the kind of ground those animals used, and by the time the town's own record thickens — directories, newspapers, the park archive — none of the three appears in it as a living animal. The township-level last-record dates stand as a named gap, their settlers the Chapman township sketches at page-image strength and the county bounty records in the commissioners' minutes.