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 May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows