Excerpt from The Passing of the Old West Hal G. Evarts a writejgpf animal stories - that vividly recall Jack London's The Call of the Wild. His first novel, The Cross Pull, revealed him as one of the few living atrthors who can successfully drama tize the life of the animal without depart ing from the truth. In The Yellow Horde he makes the adventure of the coyote so vivid and engrossing that the reader closes the boolr with a feeling that he has been transported back to the great open spaces of the West and Northwest, and understands the free, wild life of the hunted. Collins the wolfer, of Sand Coulee Basin, heard the coyotes howling. The little devils! He chuckled. Moth can't wipe 'em out. There'll be a million coyotes left to howl when the last man dies! And then it was that Collins caught a new howl that of a breed-wolf, a cross between coyote and wolf, possessing the cunning of the coyote and the strength of the wolf. The coming of Breed brought changes in the wild, for the coyotes learned to run with him and thus to hunt in a k. Collins swore he would get Breed, t bullet and trap and poison failed. Collins owned a half-wild pet, Shady, a cross between a coyote and a dog, and Breed won Shady away from Collins. Their ensuing life together, their encounters with wolfhounds and with the big grey wolf Flatcar, and their northward migra tion far into Canada are set forth in a manner most enthralling, but with a scru pulous regard for facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.