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other dogs with the pack. These greyhounds were 

 trained to the throat-hold, and did their own killing in 

 fine style ; usually six or eight were slipped together. 

 General Miles informs me that he once had great fun in 

 the Indian Territory hunting wolves with a pack of grey- 

 hounds. They had with the pack a large stub-tailed mon- 

 grel, of doubtful ancestry but most undoubted fighting 

 capacity. When the wolf was started the greyhounds 

 were sure to overtake it in a mile or two ; they would 

 then bring it to a halt and stand around it in a ring until 

 the fighting dog came up. The latter promptly tumbled 

 on the wolf, grabbing him anywhere, and often getting a 

 terrific wound himself at the same time. As soon as 

 he had seized the wolf and was rolling over with him in 

 the grapple the other dogs joined in the fray and dis- 

 patched the quarry without much danger to themselves. 



During the last decade many ranchmen in Colorado, 

 Wyoming, and Montana, have developed packs of grey- 

 hounds able to kill a wolf unassisted. Greyhounds trained 

 for this purpose always seize by the throat ; and the light 

 dogs used for coursing jack-rabbits are not of much service, 

 smooth or rough-haired greyhounds and deer-hounds 

 standing over thirty inches at the shoulder and weighing 

 over ninety pounds being the only ones that, 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 



