Mysteries in Our National Parks: Wolf Stalker: A Mystery in Yellowstone National Park

Mysteries in Our National Parks: Wolf Stalker: A Mystery in Yellowstone National Park
Gloria Skurzynski

Alane Ferguson

National Geographic Kids

WOLF STALKER

A MYSTERY IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

GLORIA SKURZYNSKI AND ALANE FERGUSON

For Barbara Lalicki

Together again, the three of us

Copyright © 1997 Gloria Skurzynski and Alane Ferguson

Cover illustration copyright © 2007 Jeffery Mangiat

All rights reserved.

Reproduction of the whole or any part of the contents is prohibited without written permission from the National Geographic Society, 1145 17th Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to living persons or events other than descriptions of natural phenomena is purely coincidental.

Map by Matthew Frey—Wood Ronsaville Harlin, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Skurzynski, Gloria

Wolf stalker / Gloria Skurzynski and Alane Ferguson p. cm.—(A national parks mystery; #1)

Summary: Twelve-year-old Jack, his younger sister, and the family’s teenage foster child Troy go to Yellowstone National Park, where Jack’s mother, a wildlife veterinarian, is investigating the report that wolves reintroduced to the park have killed a dog there.

ISBN: 978-1-4263-0964-9

[1. Wolves—Fiction. 2. Wildlife reintroduction—Fiction. 3. Wildlife conservation—Fiction. 4. Yellowstone National Park—Fiction. 5. National parks and reserves—Fiction. 6. Mystery and detective stories.]I. Ferguson, Alane. II. Title. III. Series.

PZ7.S6287Wo 1997 97-11125

[Fic]—DC21

Version: 2017-07-05

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful for the valuable

information provided so generously by

Mike Phillips, Wolf Restoration Program Leader,

Yellowstone National Park;

Marsha Karle, Chief of Public Affairs,

Yellowstone National Park;

Elden Naranjo, Tribal Historian for

the Southern Ute Tribe;

Bruce L. Smith, Wildlife Biologist,

National Elk Refuge, Jackson, Wyoming;

and Larry F. Jones, ballistics expert.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

AFTERWORD

ABOUT THE AUTHORS (#litres_trial_promo)

A soulful howl rose, fell, and then faded. It told the man he was zeroing in on his prey. As he fingered the barrel of his rifle, his eyes searched the thick forest growth for signs of his enemy. There! A flash of black fur followed by a streak of silver—instantly he raised his rifle, but before he could take aim, the wolves disappeared into the brush. Once again, they had escaped his bullet.