People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — Killed a Puma With Pocket Knives. [ARTICLE]

Killed a Puma With Pocket Knives.

George W. Cooper and a youth named Nienberger had a desperate encounter with a mountain lion recently while driving into Piedmont, Wy. They were coming in from a lumber camp without arms of any kind, and when nearing the city a massive mountain lion sprang from the underbrush and buried his fangs in the neck of one of the horses. The men were dazed for a moment. Cooper threw a billet of wood at the intruder. The next instant the lion abandoned the team and made for the boy. The latter jumped sideways and the lion landed between them. Nienberger had drawn a knife, and this he buried in the throat of the brute, while his partner struggled to release his hand to get another knife from his pocket. He succeeded, .and between them the lads dispatched the lion. Three other lions were seen to scamper away from the vicinity.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.