Known to take down the mighty wildebeest, hyenas are very fast runners – topping out at 30 mph – with high stamina. While they aren’t completely front-heavy like a bulldog, they do have a similar build: muscular neck and jaw with long front legs and a smaller backside. Their weight can vary depending on species, averaging around 100 lbs, but some have been recorded weighing in closer to 200 lbs! One of these can average anywhere from two to four feet in length, not including its tail which can add another 10 to 14 inches, and stand half the height of a human on all fours. There are three types of hyena, the largest of which is the spotted hyena. (In fact, they’re more closely related to cats!) Though they look like a dog, they are in no way part of the canine family. Hyenas are a class of animal unto their own. It’s no laughing matter, the amount of power and prowess this carnivore has.īut how does it measure up compared to the wolf? The hyena is a formidable hunter who is much more common in Africa than you may think. Not too different from these cousins of dogs is another pack animal who is often forgotten outside of being a Disney villain. The appearance of a scrawny wolf at the dry basin provides a chance for survival-and revenge-if only Buckner can outwolf the wolf.Wolves are world-famous predators revered for their ferocious abilities and pack mentality. When Tom Buckner, in “Hunted Wolf,” quit Hal Stafford’s Cross-T Ranch he didn’t expect to be pursued and left to die in the desert, his horse wounded and a single cartridge in his gun. As the war with Mexico, which Morgan is against, ramps up and the services of brigs are needed to move supplies and men to Taylor at the mouth of the Río Grande, a web of deceit encircles Morgan as rumors of blockade running and smuggling contraband, including slaves, into Mexico tighten around him.
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Knowing the code of the North-that one must to help another in distress-Blanton calls out, but the man and his team pass him by.Ĭourt martialed and losing the woman he loved seven years earlier, Cass Morgan, in “Powder for Santa Anna,” has been living recklessly, shipping freight between the African coast and the Mexican gulf with his partner, O’Malley. Two hundred and fifty miles from food and shelter for both himself and his dogs in the midst of a blizzard, all hope seems gone until a sled team appears in the distance. When Stanley Blanton, an engineer charting the mineral resources of the Northland in the “Out Trail,” crashes through a snow bridge with his sled and dogs, he injures his ankle. That loyalty is tested when his ranch is burned out and he and his partner are branded cattle thieves by Hurley himself. Lucas is torn by his loyalty to both Hurley and his Double-O Ranch on one side and to the small ranchers on the other. Hurley calls a meeting of all the small ranchers, for which Tom is a leader, to warn them a range war is headed their way if the skimming off of his yearlings doesn’t stop. Lucas is also in love with Old Bob’s granddaughter, Marcia, who has just returned from the East. In “Death for Double-O Neighbors,” Tom Lucas owes plenty to Old Bob Hurley who raised him and helped him start up his own ranch, the Wagon Wheel.
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