Lobo Wolves Photograph Collection
Route 6 (1929-1972) - Page 3
In the early 1900s, during the United States and Canadian governments' campaign to exterminate wolves from the American wilderness, Dr. E. H. McCleery of Kane, Pennsylvania purchased more than 20 live wolves from the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains (which he called "lobo wolves"). His "wolf farm," where he raised, bred, and exhibited his wolves for 41 years, became a popular tourist destination and ultimately saved the subspecies from extinction.
Between 1929 and 1962 Dr. McCleery kept his wolves at a park along Route 6, five miles east of Kane. In 1962, three months before his death, Dr. McCleery sold his wolf park to Jack Lynch who continued to preserve the subspecies. Jack moved the wolves to Gardiner, WA in 1972, and later to Montana in 1980, where they are still bred and maintained today. This gallery showcases mostly color photographs of the wolves and those taken when Jack Lynch owned the Route 6 wolf park.
More Photo Galleries:
Kane, PA (1921 - 1929)
Between Gap and Coatesville, PA (1930 - 1931)
Route 6, between Kane and Mt. Jewett, PA (1929 - 1972) - PAGE 1
Route 6, between Kane and Mt. Jewett, PA (1929 - 1972) - PAGE 2
Route 6, between Kane and Mt. Jewett, PA (1929 - 1972) - PAGE 3
Gardiner, WA (1972 - 1980)