CHAPTER III 



WOLF-COURSING 



ON April eighth, nineteen hundred and five, we left 

 the town of Frederick, Oklahoma, for a few days* coyote 

 coursing in the Comanche Reserve. Lieut. -Gen. S. B. 

 M. Young, U. S. A., retired, Lieutenant Fortescue, U. 

 S. A., formerly of my regiment, and Dr. Alexander 

 Lambert, of New York, were with me. We were the 

 guests of Colonel Cecil Lyon, of Texas, of Sloan Simp- 

 son, also of Texas, and formerly of my regiment, and 

 of two old-style Texas cattlemen, Messrs. Burnett 

 and Wagner, who had leased great stretches of wire- 

 fenced pasture from the Comanches and Kiowas; and 

 I cannot sufficiently express my appreciation of the 

 kindness of these my hosts. Burnett's brand, the 

 Four Sixes, has been owned by him for forty years. 

 Both of them had come to this country thirty years 

 before, in the days of the buffalo, when all game was 

 very plentiful and the Indians were still on the war- 

 path. Several other ranchmen were along, including 

 John Abernethy, of Tesca, Oklahoma, a professional 

 wolf hunter. There were also a number of cow- 

 hands of both Burnett and Wagner; among them were 

 two former riders for the Four Sixes, Fi Taylor and 

 Uncle Ed Gillis, who seemed to make it their special 

 mission to see that everything went right with me. 



