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UNITED STATES : Illinois : Chicago :: from Damen Avenue to Evergreen Avenue, between Schiller Street and Evergreen Avenue

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My collection of old medicine bottles

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Someone once told me to the story of why coyotes howl to the moon... According to the legend, Pecos Bill was born in Texas in the 1830s. Pecos Bill's family decided to move out because his town was being "too crowded". Pecos Bill was traveling in a covered wagon as an infant when he fell out unnoticed by the rest of his family near the Pecos River (thus his nickname).

He was taken in and raised by a pack of coyotes. Years later he was found by his real brother, who managed to convince him he was not a coyote. He grew up to become a cowboy. Pecos used a rattlesnake named Shake as a lasso and another snake as a little whip. His trusty steed, Widow-Maker, was so named because no other man could ride him and live. Hell, they even say dynamite was Widow-Maker’s favorite food ha. Off they’d go finding adventure lassoing twisters or fighting the bear lake monster.

But one day, Bill was fishing with the pack when all the sudden he saw Slue-Foot Sue riding a giant catfish down the Rio Grande. He instantly fell in love with her. After a couple adventures and dates together, Pecos proposes to Sue and decided they should get married right then and there. Sue accepted his proposal and insisted on riding Widow-Maker before the wedding. But ol’ Widow-Maker was jealous of no longer having Bill's undivided attention and bounced Sue off; she lands on her bustle and begins bouncing higher and higher. Pecos attempts, but fails, to lasso her, because Widow-Maker didn't want her on his back again, and eventually, Sue gets stranded on the moon and that's where she stayed. 

Poor Bill left civilization and would howl at the moon every night, with his coyote brothers joining in sympathy; and that is the reason that to this very day, coyotes howl at the Moon that way...

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