STORY OF PLAINSMEN. 



THE WOLF HUNTERS. ., Grin . 



nell. Charles Scribner's Sons, Ne- 



H/pHE WOLF HUNTERS" is a plans- 

 ible and adventurous story of three 

 discharged soldiers who, in the early 

 days, rigged out an outfit and pushed onto 

 the buffalo plains to take pelts for the mar- 

 ket. Except for the phenomenal shooting 

 of Wild Bill Hickok, which very few peo- 

 ple who know something of good marks- 

 manship will be likely to credit, there is 

 nothing in the book that may not be ac- 

 j cepted as a fair, accurate and eminently 

 sane picture of life in the early days of 

 the West. That being true, it follows that 

 adventures with outlaws and Indians were 

 I frequent, for life in those times was any- 

 thing but prosaic. 



The ruse by which the Jayhawker ruf- 

 fians are frightened off after attempting 

 -to steal the outfit's mules, the discovery of 

 human skull and the tragic message 

 besiu " f the messenger service of the 

 faithful dog that runs the gauntlet of the 

 attacking Indians, are all episodes peculiar 

 to the lawless plains and all are described 

 with a sobriety of statement, nevertheless 

 graphic, not often met with in stories of 

 the West. 



The author relates in an introductorv 

 note that the book describes the actual ad- 

 ventures of Robert Morris Peck and his 

 two companions, all discharged soldiers, 

 during the whiter of 1861-1862, who went 

 out on the plains, made a camp and spent 

 the winter there killing buffalo and pois- 

 oning the carcasses with strychnine. The 

 wolves that fed on these carcasses died 

 about them, and the pelts were taken. 



