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  • Tags: McCleery, E. H. - Traveling the West

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This antler is from a bull elk shot by Dr. E. H. McCleery in the western United States, possibly in Montana.

According to John Lorenzo (great nephew of Earl Jones, Dr. McCleery's main wolf keeper), John found the antlers in the attic at the Jones' house on Pine Street and asked his grandpa Ed…
Date: The elk was probably shot between 1891 and 1945

This article describes Dr. McCleery's pack of the last of the lobo wolves, of which he usually maintains about 60. An anecdote is given of Dr. McCleery's interaction with wolves about 30 years previous. He was traveling the West and observed a pair of wolf pups devour animal bones without…
Date: August 1939