Twenty years on the trap line : being a collection of revised camp notes written at intervals during a twenty years experience in trapping, wolfing and hunting, on the great Northwestern plains . Valley, in Her Majestys domain. Following every bulTalo herd, were packsof ravenous wolves that watched warily forwonnded or decrepit buffalo that would fall an©asy prey to their savage onslaught. Oldbulls, no longer able to stRud the I liiffs andbutts of their ytnmger fellows, were forcedto the outskirts there in turn to meet thedreaded wolf. While builalo were ever care-ful to give protection to the
Twenty years on the trap line : being a collection of revised camp notes written at intervals during a twenty years experience in trapping, wolfing and hunting, on the great Northwestern plains . Valley, in Her Majestys domain. Following every bulTalo herd, were packsof ravenous wolves that watched warily forwonnded or decrepit buffalo that would fall an©asy prey to their savage onslaught. Oldbulls, no longer able to stRud the I liiffs andbutts of their ytnmger fellows, were forcedto the outskirts there in turn to meet thedreaded wolf. While builalo were ever care-ful to give protection to their young, theiraged especially the males, were literallyturned out to die, when no longer able tohold their own in a single butting combat. Every band of buRalo groat or small, , encircled by gangs or packs ofwolves, coyotes, foxes and swifts. The threelatter were ranged on the outer circle, andforced to wait, as it were, for second table. With a full knowledge of the movementsof his game, the wolfer riggs up anoutfit similar to that of the hunter or thetrapper with the exception of traps and the place oC these, he supplies himself lib-erally with strychnine K TiiAPPER of Sioux outlawswlio i-angod along tlio Ui)p(;i- tho years 18()5 and 18S5. LoNCi !)()(; TChi(d of a niixod ON THE TKAP LINE. 71 If it was in the autamu, he inovud 4i\ow\jin the wake of a buffalo herd, makiugopencamp , and shooting down a few of the beaflts,and after ripping th«in open, saturating theirwarm blood and intestines with from one tothr«8 bottles of str^ -Ji liti-; to each carcass. After hia line of poison-.^ { biiffah) has beenp ut out to his notion, iLo woifer makes campin a raTine or coulee and prepares for themorrow. With the first giiniuier of light in the eaBt-ern Kky, ho rist-s. niakefc his lire, and cooks hisctfTeo, then hitchewup, if he hart a tejAUi, orsad-dlcH up if with pa( kH, ftii<l follows his line tothe f,nis^hi. .\round e
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