Lobo 



The King of Currumpaw 



URRUMPAW is a vast cattle range in 

 northern New Mexico. It is a land 

 of rich pastures and teeming flocks 

 and herds, a land of rolling mesas and 

 precious running waters that at length 

 unite in the Currumpaw River, from 

 which the whole region is named. 

 And the king whose despotic power was felt 

 over its entire extent was an old gray wolf. 



Old Lobo, or the king, as the Mexicans called 

 him, was the gigantic leader of a remarkable 

 pack of gray wolves, that had ravaged the Cur- 

 rumpaw Valley for a number of years. All the 

 shepherds and ranchmen knew him well, and, 



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