There's an old folk story told in the mountains of Montana about a band of gray wolves that hunted relentlessly and remorselessly for human babies. They ate the males but carried the females off and raised them along with their cubs.
A cattleman named Zach and his wife Betty were running a cow outfit in the Beartooth Range. They had a little one-year-old daughter named Angie. She was a pretty little girl with nut-brown curly hair and hazel eyes.
One moonless night they were awakened by

True West March/April 2025
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- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
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