Karen Craver got a very nice write-up in the Monday, October 15, 2007 online edition of the Missoulian -- another one of Michael Jamison's excellent articles . . .
She calls him “homeland security,” this enormous gray wolf who hangs his head out the car window as she drives bumpy back roads up near the Canadian line.
“I don't think there's any other postal delivery people with wolves in their rigs,” said Karen Craver, and you've got to reckon she's right about that.
Strange enough that she's got a big black Newfoundland packed in there drooling on the parcels and postcards, but a wolf?
“He's just a big baby,” Craver assures, burying her nose in the stiff fur of her wolf's neck. “He loves to ride along.”
Their ride is a once-white Mitsubishi Montero - license plate “wolfmom” - dusted dirty brown with road grime. For three years now, Craver has used it to run one of Montana's most remote mail routes, north of Columbia Falls to the Canadian border, alongside Glacier Park's western wilderness, to the 100 or so folk who call this 60 miles of river bottom home.
“Some places up here,” she said, “it's 10 miles between mailboxes.”
Read the entire article . . .