LASSOING A BULL MOOSE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 7

LASSOING A BULL MOOSE

1 A COWBOY’S ADVENTURE ! VANCOUVER, Aug. 20. j I One of tho strangest adventures ever i recorded even in the wild lands of British j Columbia comes from tho remote Horsefly Lake country, of the Cariboo dis- j trict. . ! Victor Furrev, a, cowboy, was on his way back to his ranch from a hamlet known us Lone Butte. The trail lay many leages through country inhabited only hv big game, the most numerous of which arc moose. Tho cowboy was following a narrow trail through jackpine thicket when, suddenly, a bull moose appeared, lacing him square in the middle of tne trail. There was no | possibility of turning back, or out of the trail. Being unarmed, his hand instinctively went to the rawhide lariat tied to.his-saddle and, in a moment, he lmd the huge moose securely lassoed bv |

he horns. I Then began a strange battle. r l ho noose weighed not less than 1500. b.; the ( ior.se not more than 10001 b. 'The end j jf the lariat was Bound fast to the horn if the saddle, and tin* latter was cinched irmly about thy horse. The moose, t er- I ified as much as the horse and his rider, .washed into the thick forest, dragging .he horse and rider after hint at breakneck speed, for in spite oi his huge liorns, no animal is fleeter in its native forest than the moose. Small limbs of ivees were snapped like, matchwood in !lie rush, and then, angered by its inrbilitv to shako itself free, the moose turned suddenly and pursued the horse im j rider, who, both narrowly escaped the horns as the animal plunged at them. Again the moose turned and fled irom his assailants. Tho cowboy, knowing that the battle would soon end in favor of the moose unless ho could break free, attempted to cut, tho lariat with his knife, but a sudden jerk on the line shook the knife from his hand. Once again, in frenzy, [ho rnooso tuniod ciiul tho rider, with great presents of mind, took a few swift turns round a bunch of jackpines, entangling the huge beast so that it, could do no harm. ' Dismounting, lie cut the rope and. made it- fast : then lie rode to the nearest ranch-house and obtained a rifle, with which he returned and shot the moose.