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INTERVIEW: Romero Page 12 were some roads there, but not highways, of course. This was along the, beside the railroad tracks. We had a great deal of difficulty with the coyotes, there were so many wolves that you could see in the mornings not one or two, but dozens would pass in the ridges and here you could see the wolves sneaking along. I had a lot of experience with these wolves. There were many coyotes, and there were a lot of deer, the wild deer, these deer with the twin-pronged horns; these could be seen in the distance stirring up a lot of dust, but they didn't present any problem to the sheep. We would lose some of these sheep, of course, through carelessness, the shepherd would become careless and the coyote would, this is why the coyote has this name, the coyote would approach and as soon as he had a chance, he would grab one of the sheep. This occurred to me various times when the coyote would grab some of my sheep. We would carry arms always, we were very protective in all forms, we carried everything that we needed to go out into the grazing areas: rifles, pistols. We used to go there in the autumn, out in what we called this desert, in the north of Wyoming around a river that comes from the mountain of Lander, Wyoming, we called it Sweetwater River, a very beautiful river with such sweet and beautiful water. There the camperos