With Horse and Hounds on the Western Plains 67 



his tribe with a view of banding together so that when the hand 

 to hand contest comes on, the fight will be in their favour. If, 

 in these chases, two or three coyotes find themselves pressed 

 by a single hound they turn on liim and his life is only rescued 

 by bringing on the pack. 



]Mr. Petrie has had several hounds killed by being led into 

 such a trap and has many times saved the lives of others by 

 coming to the rescue or sending in a timely shot from his six 

 shooter. The coyote alone, as before stated, is a coward, but 

 when finally overtaken he puts up a fight that would tickle 

 an Irishman to death. 



We need not dwell on his habits more, but leave it to the 

 chase itself to bring out his most pronounced features. As 

 to the wolf, he is well understood by everyone. What boy has 

 not read all about wolves and how they band for attack ? Who 

 has not seen pictures of them pursuing a horse and cutter on a 

 stormy night, where the horse was being driven for dear life 

 to esca])e; or where their jiursuit has been stoi)ped by shooting- 

 one of the gang, which the others stopped to devour? 



An occasional magazine article and personal reminiscence 

 of western men had been coming to the writer for some time as 

 to Jack rabbit, coyote and wolf hunting with horse and hound, 

 in some parts of the Western States, and he thought he would 

 like to include a chapter or two on tliis form of the chase. To 

 accomplish this he made a hunting tour through Colorado and 

 Kansas, that he might see the game with his own eyes and be 

 able to give his personal experiences and impressions. They 

 may prove unsatisfactory to his western friends, whose ideas 

 and views are somewhat at variance in different districts, and 

 who maj' fail to understand how coyote hunting in one part of 

 the State differs from that in another. The writer does not pre- 

 tend to give the best way, but to tell what he saw, as he saw it. 

 He had no idea, however, of the extent of tliis sport, which one 

 in the East hears so little about. The reason for this is that 



