The Timber-wolf 



In consequence, after a time, game may 

 even increase in certain districts where 

 settlements are thin. This has been true 

 of the wolves throughout the northern 

 cattle country in Montana, Wyoming, 

 and the western ends of the Dakotas. 

 In the old days wolves were very plenti- 

 ful throughout this region, closely follow- 

 ing the huge herds of buffaloes. The 

 white men who followed these herds as 

 professional buffalo-hunters were often 

 accompanied by other men, known as 

 11 wolfers/' who poisoned these wolves for 

 the sake of their furs. With the dis- 

 appearance of the buffalo the wolves 

 seemed so to diminish in numbers that 

 they also seemed to disappear. During 

 the last ten years their numbers have 

 steadily increased, and now they seem to 

 be as numerous as they ever were in the 

 region in question, and they are infinitely * 

 more wary and more difficult to kill. 

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