Was orphan girl really raised by wolves?

Newspapers across the Lone Star State reported on Feb. 9, 1933 that “a wild man, who scales cliffs and speeds through the underbrush in the fashion of a fictional Tarzan, has been living in the hilly, wooded section near Newport.”

The story was either an imaginative hoax or the subject was nothing more than a high-strung hermit who liked to sprint through the country south of the Red River.  Whatever the case, the nature lover never made it into print again.  

Not so for “The Lobo Girl of Devil’s River,” a mysterious phantom Texans have been talking and writing about for a century and a half.