Good Hunting 



Along the Little Missouri their ravages 

 were so serious from 1893 to 1897 as to 

 cause heavy damage to the stockmen. 

 Not only colts and calves, but young trail 

 stock, and in midwinter even full-grown 

 horses and steers, are continually slain; 

 and in some seasons their losses have been 

 so serious as to more than eat up all the 

 profits of the ranchman. The county 

 authorities put a bounty on wolf scalps of 

 three dollars each, and in my own neigh- 

 borhood the ranchmen of their own ac- 

 cord put on a further bounty of five 

 dollars. This made eight dollars for 

 every wolf, and as the skin is also worth 

 something, the business of killing wolves 

 was quite profitable. 



Wolves are very shy, and show ex- 

 traordinary cunning both in hiding them- 

 selves and in slinking out of the way 

 the hunter. They are rarely killed 

 with the rifle. I have never shot but one 

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