Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1908 — Wolf Skin Garments. [ARTICLE]

Wolf Skin Garments.

If those big wolf and eoyote skin overcoat; sued as are worn to K.iasas City by Northwestern in winter and farmers could talk many thrilling and interesting h acting yarns would be added to hunting lore. In the Dakotas, Nebraska and Wyoming, especially, where coats of thft kind are a winter’s necessity for men out of doors, trapping and kiiling wolves and coyotes lor their skins Is quite an industry and is followed with profit by hunters. Many of them are Indians who are skilled in the use of the needle and scissors and realize the full profit on the garment by making it themselves to the customer’s order; The best wolf-skin coats sell for $l5O and none for less than SIOO. The legs of the pelt carnet Le used and for a large coat ten skins are required. Extreme care must be taken of the coats In summer, however to keep the moths out of the fur. They are heavier than any sort of an ulster of cloth and remain rainproof even after days of exposure. E. W. Hart, of Brock, Neb., who was at the Blossom House one night recently, had one of those cca.s a story, or rather with twelve stories, for there was one attached to each of the many skins it was made v.p of. “I am not much of,a hunter,” said Mr. Hart,” and was six years in killing enough wolves to make this coat. It is a home-made affair and a bit rough on the edges, but -good enough for a stockmen. The skin from the sleeves are made was obtained with difficulty. The wolf was the largest of the lot, a female, and half starved at the time I captured ner. I jumped in among the hounds after she was down to keep them from tearing her throat, but before 1 could get a firm hold upon her jaws she slipped loose and fastened her teeth in my coat sleeve. I was comeellc- to le? her go, shake her elf and let the dogs again catch and kill her. I must have chased? f hct at and trFd to trar* flf'y of the befor r I killed enotirh to make Ibe co»*. They h”e pop”lnr nut our wav and the greatest garment of their kind, but bard to get”—Kansas City Star.