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Badlands Billy 
stringing behind or trotting alongside. The 
sun had gone from the sky, and a_blood- 
streak marked the spot where he died, away 
over Sentinel Butte. The hills were dim, the 
valleys dark, when from the nearest gloom there 
rolled a long-drawn cry that all men recognize 
instinctively—melodious, yet with a tone in 
it that sends a shudder up the spine, though 
now it has lost all menace for mankind. We 
listened fora moment. It was the Wolf-hunter 
who broke silence: ‘That ’s Badlands Billy; 
ain’t ita voice? He’s out for his beef to-night.” 
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ANCIENT DAYS 
In pristine days the Buffalo herds were fol- 
lowed by bands of Wolves that preyed on the 
sick, the weak, and the wounded. When the 
Buffalo were exterminated the Wolves were 
hard put for support, but the Cattle came and 
solved the question for them by taking the 
Buffaloes’ place. This caused the wolf-war. 
The ranchmen offered a bounty for each Wolf 
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