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Coyote Hunt 



by Burgess H. Scott . . . paintings by Don Silverstein 



SPORTSMEN would have to travel far to find a more slam-bang 

 sporting event than the coyote hunts that Nebraskans of the 

 Sand Hills country put on at every opportunity. 



The gist of the sport is setting a pack of greyhounds on the 

 trail of a coyote and following the chase at a near-fifty-m.p.h. 

 clip in a stripped-down truck known locally as a coyote car. 



One of the ablest of the huntsmen is Ben Ammon of Bassett, 

 whose pack of seven greyhounds and staghounds ran up a score 

 of thirty-six kills last fall. Ammon's coyote car was made from a 



