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that he had never in all his experience known 

 of a wolf attacking a human being. On a 

 number of occasions during the winter that he 

 was poisoning wolves, when returning on foot 

 after dark from putting out his baits, he was 

 followed at a distance of not more than eight 

 or ten feet by a huge white wolf. The first 

 two or three times that it followed him he was 

 afraid of it, believing that perhaps it might 

 attack him, but it never approached very close 

 to him. 



I have known of but one person being 

 attacked by a wolf, and this attack was ap- 

 parently not made because the animal was 

 hungry, but because it was cross. The per- 

 son who was injured was a daughter of old Jim 

 Baker, one of the few old-time trappers still 

 living, who resides on Snake River, in the 

 northwest corner of Colorado. The occur- 

 rence took place about sixteen years ago, and 

 in summer. The young girl, then eighteen 

 years old, went out just at dusk to drive in 

 some milk cows. As she was going toward 

 them, she saw a gray wolf sitting on the 

 hillside, just above the trail. She shouted 

 to frighten it away, and when it did not move, 

 took up a stone and threw at it. The animal 



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