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grown steers and horses. Quite a number 

 have been poisoned, but they are very wary 

 about taking baits. Quite a number also have 

 been roped by the men on the round-up who 

 have happened to run across them when gorged 

 from feeding at a carcass. Nevertheless, for 

 the last few years they have tended to increase 

 in numbers, though they are so wary, and now- 

 adays so strictly nocturnal in their habits, that 

 they are not often seen. This great increase, 

 following a great diminution, in the number of 

 wolves along the Little Missouri is very curi- 

 ous. Twenty years ago, or thereabouts, wolves 

 were common, and they were then frequently 

 seen by every traveler and hunter. With the 

 advent of the wolfers, who poisoned them for 

 their skins, they disappeared, the disappear- 

 ance being only partly explicable, however, by 

 the poisoning. For a number of years they 

 continued scarce ; but during the last four or 

 five they have again grown numerous, why I 

 cannot say. I wish that there were sufficient 

 data at hand to tell whether they have de- 

 creased during these four or five years in 

 neio-hboring regions, say in central and east- 

 ern Montana. Another curious feature of the 

 case is that the white wolves, which in the 



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