Wolf Stories

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

William Banta, a buffalo hunter who later became a Texas Ranger, often encountered wolves on the Llano Estacado. In his book Twenty Seven Years on the Texas Frontier, Banta wrote of an incident in which a member of his hunting party turned up missing in the dead of winter. Banta and his companions searched for the missing man, and finally found him far from camp and afoot. The man explained that he had killed a buffalo and skinned it, but when the weather turned bad he rolled up in the green hide to avoid freezing to death. Wolves came to feed on the buffalo carcass, and some began chewing the hide in which the man had wrapped himself. The hide had frozen stiff, and the man could not move. "When it came day," Banta reports the man as saying, "and when they began to grit their teeth near my head, I fairly trembled with fear, and could not help saying 'suy'. The wolves would look around, and not seeing anything, would begin to eat on the frozen hide so close to my head I could almost feel their teeth clipping my ears." Eventually the wolves went away, the sun warmed the hide, and the man got free -- only to find that his horse had frozen to death.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Now, that's something I would not want to experience.

Slim

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Now, that's something I would not want to experience.

Slim

Reckon you could call that gettin' all wrapped up in your work?

[Silver Creek Slim]

Now, that's something I would not want to experience.

Slim

Reckon you could call that gettin' all wrapped up in your work?

Good one, Capt.

Slim

[Steel Horse Bailey]

 

[litl rooster]

Now, that's something I would not want to experience.

Slim

Reckon you could call that gettin' all wrapped up in your work?