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“A pack of wolves has killed at least three calves since Thursday night in eastern Baker County… seven others were either injured or missing…” Baker City Herald
The rancher parks his truck, reaches for his rifle, hears a mother cow bawl, walks toward the bloody mess, and kicks the gnawed remains of a calf’s foreleg. He guesses what happened-- six maybe eight gray wolves stalked his herd of cow calf pairs, retreated up Sheep Mountain. He imagines an alpha wolf watching from an outcrop, gloating. |
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AuthorNancy Harris McLelland taught creative writing, composition, and literature for over twenty years and Conducted writing workshops for the Western Folklife Center, Great Basin College , and the Great Basin Writing Project . An Elko County native with a background in ranching. McLelland has presented her "Poems from Tuscarora" Both at daytime and evening events at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko. Her essay, "Border Lands: Cowboy Poetry and the Literary Canon" is in the anthology Cowboy Poetry Matters . Categories |
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