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The Why of Ferrets

10,000 Birds

The species was extinct, a vanished part of the vanishing prairie — and not for the first time. Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. Then, in Meeteese, Wyoming, the Hogg family’s ranch dog Shep found something. You couldn’t see it.

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