ALWAYS TRUST A RANGE COW| ALWAYS TRUST A RANGE COW Story by
Trudy Frisk Photo by Karen McLaren Something was scaring horses
in Vaughan, Montana. On Dec. 26, l975, when the sheriff’s office
received a report of horses rearing, pawing the ground and
acting frightened, they went to investigate. The two teen-aged
girls who’d called the sheriff said they’d seen what spooked the
horses. In fact one had even shot at and possibly hit the
creature scaring them. In July 1969, on a farm on Lulu Island,
near Vancouver, B.C., cows were acting peculiar. The two
brothers who owned the farm were puzzled when the cattle
suddenly stampeded up to the buildings. These weren’t mild-
mannered milkers running for shelter to familiar barns and
stanchions. They were tough, cynical range cows, brought to the
farm for finishing. Yet, day after day, they ran towards the
barns, obviously terrified. The mystery was solved when one
brother, out building a fence, saw what was chasing them. In
Vaughan, Montana, several people saw the animal s