Federal hunter H.P. Williams (pictured left) and local rancher stand over slain Custer Wolf on October 11, 1920
Species
Canis lupus
Died
11 October, 1920
Known for
Extensive damage to ranchers' livestock in the area surrounding Custer, South Dakota
Named after
Custer, South Dakota
The Custer Wolf was a North American gray wolf who was held responsible for extensive damage to ranchers' livestock in the area surrounding Custer, South Dakota, between 1911 and 1920, with the damage estimated at $25,000. The wolf was shot by a hunter employed by the federal government, who tracked the wolf for months and killed him after the wolf had triggered a trap.
The CusterWolf was a North American gray wolf who was held responsible for extensive damage to ranchers' livestock in the area surrounding Custer, South...
release by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1921, the infamous CusterWolf relied on coyotes to accompany him and warn him of danger. Though they...
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Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota...
the context of pest control rather than sport. George Armstrong Custer enjoyed wolf coursing with dogs, and favoured large greyhounds and Staghound....
Little Wolf (Cheyenne: Ó'kôhómôxháahketa, sometimes transcribed Ohcumgache or Ohkomhakit, more correctly translated Little Coyote, c.1820—1904) was a Northern...
which Custer and the 7th Cavalry then attacked later that same day, in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. List of mountain ranges in Montana "Wolf Mountains"...
Massacre) occurred on November 27, 1868, when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked Black Kettle's Southern Cheyenne camp on the...
(now known as the Custer-Gallatin National Forest) is a United States National Forest located in South-West Montana. Most of the Custer-Gallatin goes along...
territories.: 106 A small group of Crow scouts had witnessed General George A. Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in the Crow reservation. Many...
remains of Custer and Gray Wolf were exhumed in order to register their DNA. It was then discovered that Gray Wolf was not the sire of Custer, rather it...
the Cheyenne and the Arapaho.. Hardorff, Richard G. Indian Views of the Custer Fight. University of Oklahoma Press 2005, p.107 Garland, Hamlin. "Account...
Municipal Airport (ICAO airport code KBBW; IATA airport code BBW), Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska, USA bbw, the ISO 639 code for Baba language Search for...
Armstrong Custer, Regimental Commander 1st Lt. William W. Cooke, Adjutant Assistant Surgeon George Edwin Lord Acting Assistant Surgeon James Madison DeWolf 2nd...
skirmishes of the war was the Battle of the Little Bighorn; often known as Custer's Last Stand, it is the most storied of the many encounters between the US...
ISBN 978-0-300-07300-3. Richard G. Hardorff (1997). Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight. University of Nebraska Press. p. 121. ISBN 0-8032-7293-6. "Lame White...
Landmark in 2008. Following the defeat of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer on June 25, 1876, in the Battle of Little Bighorn, the United States government...
Guipago or Lone Wolf the Elder (Kiowa: Gui-Pah-G(h)o, lit. ''Lone Wolf" or "Alone among the Wolves''; c. 1820 – July 1879) was the last Principal Chief...
with striking the blow that knocked Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer off his horse before he died. During the Battle of the Rosebud, the Cheyenne...
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