244 Hunting the Grisly 



together with speed, courage, and endurance, 

 possess the requisite power. 



One of the most famous packs in the West 

 was that of the Sun River Hound Club, in 

 Montana, started by the stockmen of Sun 

 River to get rid of the curse of wolves which 

 infested the neighborhood and worked very 

 serious damage to the herds and flocks. The 

 pack was composed of both greyhounds and 

 deer-hounds, the best being from the kennels 

 of ColonelWilliams and of Mr.VanHummel, 

 of Denver; they Were handled by an old 

 plainsman and veteran wolf-hunter named 

 Porter. In the season of '86 the astonishing 

 number of 146 wolves were killed with these 

 dogs. Ordinarily, as soon as the dogs seized 

 a wolf, and threw or held it, Porter rushed in 

 and stabbed it with his hunting-knife; one 

 day, when out with six hounds, he thus killed 

 no less than twelve out of the fifteen wolves 

 started, though one of the greyhounds was 

 killed, and all the others were cut and ex- 

 hausted. But often the wolves were killed 

 without his aid. The first time the two big- 

 gest hounds deer-hounds or wire-haired 

 greyhounds were tried, when they had been 

 at the ranch only three days, they performed 

 such a feat. A large wolf had killed and par- 



