February, 1923 
click, followed by a terrified yelp, ended 
this investigation, and left the dog 
fighting and tugging at the trap. 
When Rube came over the next morn¬ 
ing, the dog was in the trap with a 
broken leg, and wolf tracks all around 
him in the fresh snow. A merciful shot 
put an end to his suffering. Seeing the 
wolf tracks in the snow, Rube moved 
the remains of the sheep over near the 
cattle corral and reset his trap there. 
He took the dead dog and threw him in 
I a pile of brush across the road. Ex¬ 
pecting results, he went out early the 
next morning, but, to his surprise, found 
that the sheep and trap were undis¬ 
turbed, but that the wolf had been feed¬ 
ing on the dead dog. He moved the 
trap from the sheep carcass to the 
brush pile, and set it where the wolf 
had climbed up after the dog. 
T HAT night it snowed about a foot, 
and the next morning the storm 
was unabated. However, Rube put on 
his snowshoes and set out for the clear¬ 
ing. His persistency and perseverence 
were rewarded, for when he came over 
the hill into the clearing, there stood a 
tremendous, gaunt, gray wolf, one front 
foot in the trap. He had put up a ter¬ 
rible fight for his freedom. The ground 
was torn up in all directions and the 
snow trampled down, but the old New- 
house trap had held. Rube said the 
wolf hung his head and acted sheepish 
as though he were ashamed of himself 
for getting caught. 
This was the last wolf caught or 
killed in the Adirondacks. He was 
mounted, and is now in the private col¬ 
lection of the late General E. A. Mc- 
Alpin at Brandreth Lake. 
In the winter of 1903, Mr. Clifford R. 
Pettiss, Superintendent of State Forests, 
I New York State Conservation Commis¬ 
sion, went to Brandreth Lake to get the 
wolf as part of the exhibit of the Forest, 
{ Fish and Game Commission shown at 
the World’s Fair held in St. Louis that 
summer. Mr. Pettiss had written Rube 
he was coming, and expected he would 
' meet him at Brandreth Station with a 
horse and cutter on the arrival of his 
train. Through some mistake the letter 
miscarried, and Mr. Pettiss arrived on 
foot at Brandreth Lake at 2 a. m. one 
very cold winter morning, after having 
plowed his way without snowshoes 
through three feet of snow over the 
eight-mile road from Brandreth Station 
to Brandreth Lake. Reuben was alone 
at the Lake and received his unexpected 
guest with all the hospitality of the 
[ woodman’s home. The following morn¬ 
ing they took the old wolf on a sleigh 
over the road, through the clearing, and 
to the New York Central Railroad. The 
wolf was shipped to St. Louis and was 
on exhibition during the World’s Fair, 
held there in 1903. He was later re¬ 
turned to Brandreth Lake, where he 
now holds an honored place among the 
1 many other specimens in the McAlpin 
collection. 
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