# Joe Calone — Wild Animals I Have Known character guide

> Joe Calone in Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Calone, Jo Calone, Jo, Wild Jo Calone, Wild Jo, V Wild Jo

**First appearance:** 0008-the-pacing-mustang

## Snapshot

A broke cowpuncher with a registered brand and a gambler's itch, Wild Jo Calone becomes fixated on capturing the one mustang nobody can catch.

## Who they are

Jo Calone rides the Perico range for twenty-five dollars a month, dreaming of a ranch and an outfit of his own while his brand, the hogpen, sits on a single old cow. He knows bronks down to subsoil and swears a black one is the hardest of all, yet the pacing mustang lodges in his mind as the strike that could change his luck. His pursuit of the Pacer turns a cowboy's idle ambition into the engine of the story's middle act.

## In the story

### [The Pacing Mustang](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wild_animals_i_have_known_se/chapters/the-pacing-mustang)

Wild Jo Calone first spots the mustang and becomes obsessed with capturing him, eventually organizing an expedition to walk him down.

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