CHAPTER III 



WOLF-COURSING 



ON April eighth, nineteen hundred and five, we left 

 the town of Frederick, Oklahoma, for a few days' coyote 

 coursing in the Comanche Reserve. Lieut.-Gen. S. B. 

 M. Young, U. S. A., retired, Lieutenant Fortescue, U. 

 S. A., formerly of my regiment, Dr. Alexander Lambert, 

 of New York, Colonel Cecil Lyon, of Texas, and Sloan 

 Simpson, also of Texas, and formerly of my regiment, 

 were with me. We were the guests of two old-style Texas 

 cattlemen, Messrs. Burnett and Wagner, who had leased 

 great stretches of wire-fenced pasture from the Co- 

 manches and Kiowas; and I cannot sufficiently express 

 my appreciation of the kindness of these my two hosts. 

 Burnett's brand, the Four Sixes, has been owned by him 

 for forty years. Both of them had come to this country 

 thirty years before, in the days of the buffalo, when all 

 game was very plentiful and the Indians were still on 

 the war-path. Several other ranchmen were along, in- 

 cluding John Abernethy, of Tesca, Oklahoma, a profes- 

 sional wolf hunter. There were also a number of cow- 

 hands of both Burnett and Wagner; among them were 

 two former riders for the Four Sixes, Fi Taylor and 

 Uncle Ed Gillis, who seemed to make it their special 

 mission to see that everything went right with me. 



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