On the night of August 4th, 1868, while Col. Wynkoop and a number of his officers and their wives were enjoying a late night party on the Colonel's porch, a rabid wolf streaked in off the prairie and savagely attacked a member of the party. It then went on to wreak havoc all over the post until it was shot by one of the soldiers on guard.
    This was one of the last stories that Ned reported to the newspapers before his resignation as Indian Agent for the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Camanches and Apaches in September of that year. This story must have caught the fancy of a number of people because it became widely reported in the next 2 months in papers all over the United States. Below you will find a number of these different versions of Ned's story, including his own.

Mad Wolf At Fort Larned, Fearful Scenes and Tragic Results.
     Henry Morton Stanley's account of a rough night at Fort Larned.

A Social Party Attacked by a Mad Wolf.
     Ned Wynkoop's full account of the same event, from the Daily Kansas State Journal.

Ferocious Attack by a Rabid Wolf -- Four Persons Bitten.
     Ned Wynkoop's account of the same event, from the New York Times.

An Unwelcome Bedfellow.
     Another brief account of the Wolf attack, with a woodcut, from the Frank Leslie's Illustrated News.

A Mad Wolf.
     From the Daily Register Call, Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado, Wednesday, 19 August, 1868.

A Mad Wolf.
     From the Daily Denver Gazette, Denver, Denver County, Colorado, Friday, 21 August, 1868, page 1.