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- LETTERS, Page 6Wolf Talk
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- John Skow writes of cattlemen in the West not liking wolves
- (AMERICAN SCENE, Nov. 6). Perhaps you Eastern folks should
- review your own history. On Nov. 9, 1630, for example, the
- Colony of Massachusetts enacted the first bounty ordinance on
- wolves in the area now known as the U.S. According to Stanley
- P. Young and Edward A. Goldman in The Wolves of North America,
- the earliest known mention in the U.S. of the so-called set gun
- or wolf gun was in New York in 1650. And in 1663 the inhabitants
- of Jamaica, Long Island, agreed that whoever killed a wolf, the
- head being shown to the town or nailed upon a tree, would be
- given seven bushels of Indian corn.
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- Larry J. Bourret, Executive Vice President Wyoming Farm
- Bureau Federation Laramie, Wyo.
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- Wolf partisans seem to have no regard for the feelings of
- the deer and elk the wolves feed on. Would you like to be
- stalked by killers night and day, the year round, finally to be
- pulled down and eaten? Better to be shot during hunting season
- than to suffer this way.
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- John Norman Constenius Whitefish, Mont.
-