My family's Home Teacher back in the 1970s was a old time trapper. Every visit he would tell us a new storey about his trapping and all the critters he had caught, he could get four young wild boys to set down and listen to his stories like no other man could.
I remember a story of him catching a animal that resembled a wild dog but he said it was different long skinny snout with teeth hanging out from its lips, he said it was like the lips could not cover the teeth. It had longer front legs than the hind legs, the haunches was much lower than the shoulders. He said the fur covering the animal was of sparse and longer than normal fur it was more like hair and it was really course. He said it acted different than a coyote would act it did not growl or snap at him or coward away from him like a coyote would, it just glared at him with a look that gave him the impression that the animal was saying you do not want to get close to me. He never told us what happened to that animal, he always left it to our imagination.
I thought that man was a giant and tougher than any man that had lived. He passed away (heart attack) when i was still young. I saw a picture a few years ago he was a large man but not a giant and when you hear pepole talk about him they always refer to him as one of the gentlest man they new, but he still lives in my mind that giant of a man that could kill any beast with his bare hands
