Wolfing was once a trade on the plains: small parties wintered on the buffalo range, killed buffalo, poisoned the carcasses with strychnine and skinned the wolves that died around them. Peck draws on his own frontier years for this story of three young soldiers who take their discharges, buy an outfit and head into Kansas, where jayhawkers, Indians and blizzards wait.
A first-hand flavour of the buffalo plains, edited by George Bird Grinnell; its practices and attitudes are those of the 1860s. Download the free EPUB.