Wolves stampede corralled horses by frightening them into leaping fences

Evidence

Page 212 Friday. This is a piteous day, quite black, freezing hard, and with a fierce north-east wind. The absence of sunshine here, where it is nearly perpetual, has a very depressing effect, and all the scenery appears in its grimness of black and gray. We have lost three horses, including Birdie, and have nothing to entice them with, and not an animal to go and drive them in with. I put my great mare in the corral myself, and Mr. Lavan put his in afterwards and secured the bars, but the wolves were holding a carnival again last night, and we think that the horses were scared and stampeded, as otherwise they would not have leaped the fence. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 231

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated interest in encounters with wolves and the mechanics of frontier horse-keeping. — connects to: Wild animals prowling near camp stampeded the picketed horses into panic flight — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 122