Wolves and Wolf Nature 



loudly that it was heard at the next cabin, 

 about two miles distant. The man cheered the 

 ranch dog at the wolf, and jumped into the 

 house again to put on his boots, for he had just 

 gotten out of bed. By the time he had them 

 on, and had started for the wolf, the dog came 

 back with his face, breast and shoulders badly 

 cut, though the wolf had seemingly made only 

 two or three snaps at him. The man fol- 

 lowed the wolf along the mountain side, over 

 snowbanks, and up and down the sides of 

 gulches for two miles, before he overtook it 

 or could get a shot at it. All the time the 

 animal was bleeding so freely that there was 

 no difficulty in following the trail. When he 

 came to it, it was too weak to go further, and 

 he was able to finish it with stones. 



In old times, the wolf in the buffalo range 

 lived almost exclusively on the flesh of that 

 animal, devouring the remains of those killed 

 by the Indian or white hunters, and also those 

 which perished by drowning, and by being 

 mired in crossing streams. About the traps 

 or "pounds," which were used by the Indians 

 to catch buffalo, wolves were always abund- 

 ant and fed upon the carcasses and remains 

 left in the trap over night. If a band of buf- 



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