I'd like to read two stories from a book called Death Stalks Moon Valley,

written by our favorite author, DA Roberts.

You can find this book on Amazon by searching D.A. Roberts Death Stalks Moon Valley.

You can buy an electronic version or a paperback version.

Right now I'm going to read you a couple of stories from this.

It's a collection of short stories that I think anyone who likes the scary type genre will like. So go check him out at Amazon. The Beast of the Valley,

of the Valley, Osage River Valley, north of Lynn Creek, Missouri, January 23, 1853.

For three days in a row, William West had gone out in the morning to check his livestock and found

at least one animal dead.

The frozen ground made it almost impossible to find the tracks of the culprit, but William knew it had to be wolves.

There was nothing else anyone had seen in the Osage River Valley that could take down a large

steer like that, and then to see the sheer amount of damage it had done to the poor animal.

On the third morning it had struck and killed a heifer who was expecting her first calf in a few weeks.

Not only had the heifer been brutally killed, but the unborn calf had been ripped from her

stomach and mostly devoured on the spot.

To make it even worse, his best stock dog had tried to defend the heifer and met a similar fate.

The only difference was that it hadn't fed on the dog.

It tore the dog to shreds and scattered the pieces around the area,

and from the amount of blood and the condition of the body,

it was clear that the dog had gone down fighting. and the is growing expensive to the herd and William's pocketbook, he decided it was time to do

something about it.

After he dragged the biggest pieces of the carcasses down by the river bank and well

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