A Desperate Encounter Near Bald Butte
A hunter's brush with death ends in a struggle for survival against wolves.
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While a man named Gressel was hunting near Bald Butte last week, not expecting to find anything larger than rabbits, he was surprised to come suddenly upon two wolves. They made a dash at him and succeeded in getting him down in the snow, as his gun missed fire. The wolves were having their own way with him until Charley Semler happened to come onto the scene in time to kill one, and the other then took to the brush. Mr. Gressel was badly hurt.
“The wolves were having their own way with him until Charley Semler happened to come onto the scene in time to kill one.”
While the wilderness near Bald Butte has changed, the threat of apex predators in the Pacific Northwest remains a recurring reality for hikers and outdoorspeople, reflecting a long-standing tension between human expansion and the wild.
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