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LETTERS, Page 6Wolf Talk
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.
Larry J. Bourret, Executive Vice President
Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation
Laramie, Wyo.
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.
John Norman Constenius
Whitefish, Mont.