{"id":2913,"date":"2023-08-22T03:41:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T03:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2023-08-22T04:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T04:05:08","slug":"coyote-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/coyote-killers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote Killers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bill Frakes was a gentleman from Argentina who brought sheep out to his claim at the old\u00a0<em><a href=\"\/camp-cady\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Camp Cady<\/a><\/em>\u00a0along the\u00a0<em><a href=\"\/mojave-river\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mojave River<\/a><\/em>. As soon as he got there, it seemed he had sheep problems. They kept dying. They kept dying because the sheep had coyote problems. The coyotes had issues because they always seemed hungry, and the sheep were so tasty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"827\" height=\"626\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/composite-frakes-ewe-c7014.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/composite-frakes-ewe-c7014.jpg 827w, https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/composite-frakes-ewe-c7014-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/composite-frakes-ewe-c7014-768x581.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Frakes noticed the coyotes rarely messed with the local\u00a0<em><a href=\"\/wildlife\/bighorn-sheep.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"\/wildlife\/bighorn-sheep.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bighorn sheep<\/a><\/em>. The bighorn would kick the hell out of the coyotes and cause them more\u00a0<em><a href=\"\/wildlife\/coyote.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coyote<\/a><\/em>\u00a0problems than the meal was worth\u2013like broken bones, punctured lungs, and death and stuff\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Frakes had an idea on how to solve everyone\u2019s problems\u2013to interbreed the bighorn with the domestic sheep. He would make coyote killers, and Bill Frakes would be on Easy Street raising flocks and flocks of bad-ass sheep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The details of what happened next are left in the gray fog of best-forgotten history, but there were rumors that several unfortunate and disturbing creatures were tied to a shed, and at night strange animal-like crying and sobbing could be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Frakes\u2019 plan failed miserably with a possible exception; up there in the hills, a hybrid ram is said to have escaped; too ugly to die, too ugly to let itself be seen, the King Mutant Ram\u2019s wailing and moaning can be heard to these very modern times in the mysterious night winds of the\u00a0<em><a href=\"\/afton-canyon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Afton Canyon<\/a><\/em>\u00a0highlands . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The End<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fiction inspired by a true event as described in \u201cDaggett, Life in a Mojave Frontier Town,\u201d by Dix Van Dyke \u2013 Edited by Peter Wild.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Frakes was a gentleman from Argentina who brought sheep out to his claim at the old\u00a0Camp Cady\u00a0along the\u00a0Mojave River. As soon as he got there, it seemed he had sheep problems. They kept dying. They kept dying because the sheep had coyote problems. The coyotes had issues because they always seemed hungry, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/coyote-killers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coyote Killers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[212,213,211,13,214],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-tall-tales-short-stories","tag-bighorn-sheep","tag-camp-cady","tag-daggett","tag-mojave-desert","tag-mojave-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}