Contrary to popular folklore, humans had little to fear from the wild wolves, and cowhands even crawled into dens to shoot the females and their pups.
The last authenticated reports of Mexican wolves in Texas occurred in December of 1970. One male was shot on a large ranch south of Alpine in Brewster Country, and a few days later another was poisoned on a ranch east of Marathon.
The Mexican wolf was placed on the federal list of endangered species in 1976.
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