In memory of Hillis L. Howie (1903-1982), amateur naturalist - A good man who took me and my best friend Ben Hitz and some other boys out to the American Wild West from Indianapolis, Indiana, in the summer of 1938 Mr Howie introduced us to real Indians and had us sleep out-of-doors every night and bury our dung, and taught us how to ride horses, and told us the names of many plants and animals, and what they needed to do in order to stay alive and reproduce themselves. One night Mr Howie scared us half to death on purpose, screaming like a wildcat near our camp. A real wildcat screamed back.

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