Luju and the Curious Wolf Cub: A Story About How the First Wolf Was Domesticated Twenty Thousand Years Ago

By C. Herndon Williams and Mariam Hobeldin

Luju and the Curious Wolf Cub is a story about the domestication of the first wolf on his way to becoming a dog about 30,000 years ago during the last Ice Age. It is a story about a young wolf cub Elji who becomes secretly interested in a young boy Luju who lives in a nearby Ice Age cave. For the first time, a wolf becomes friends with a human and they start to have adventures together in hunting and exploring the icy landscape. Luju has a hard time explaining how he has a wolf friend but eventually the wolf cub becomes part of Luju’s family and stays with him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Aug 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781480868144

C. Herndon Williams

Calvit Herndon Williams Jr. is a native Texan from Houston. His ancestors have deep roots in Texas from the 1830s colonial period: Alexander Calvit, John Hunter Herndon and Samuel May Williams. The author has a PhD in chemistry and worked as an environmental chemist, retiring in 2004. Then he began writing about stories he found in Texas history. He has two books of nonfiction by The History Press and a book of fiction about the evolution of dogs, self-published by Archway. This will be his third book with The History Press.

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-6815-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-6814-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018968466

Archway Publishing rev. date: 8/6/2019

Contents

Chapter 1     The First Yip

Chapter 2     The Fight at the Elk Carcass

Chapter 3     The First Morsel Shared

Chapter 4     Elji and Wolf Siblings Go Hunting Hares

Chapter 5     Luju First Sees Elji

Chapter 6     Luju and Elji go Hunting

Chapter 7     Luju Tells Kodi and Shna About Elji

Chapter 8     Luju Practicing with Spears, with Elji Hunting

Chapter 9     Luju and Elji are the Hunted

Chapter 10   Luju Introduces Elji to His Mother

Chapter 11   Luju and Elji Explore A Mysterious Cave

Chapter 12   Luju and Elji Meet a Rhinoceros

Chapter 13   Elji Meets the Other Cave Dwellers

Chapter 14   Other Hunters Visit Luju’s Cave

Chapter 15   Elji Defends Against Another Wolf Pack

Chapter 16   Luju and Elji Go On a Big Hunt

Chapter 17   Luju Meets Elji’s Mother and Siblings

Chapter 18   Luju and Elji Go on a Long Hunt with the Men

Chapter 19   Elji and Luju Defend the Cave against Strangers

Chapter 20   Moving Day; Another Wolf Cub Watches

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The First Yip

The boy LuJu peered from the mouth of the cave, watching the swirling snow falling on the already deep drifts. A small fire burned near his feet, casting little warmth or light. He was waiting anxiously for the return of his father and the other two hunters. They had been gone for two days, and it had been snowing heavily the whole time. They had to hunt farther and farther from the cave as the prey animals moved along with their forage.

The hunters could return empty handed or not at all since there were many dangers from large animal predators, such as bears and sabre-toothed tigers. The hunters were armed only with stone-tipped spears. The long hunting trips probably meant that their family would soon have