In the early 1900s, President Teddy Roosevelt came to Tillman County to go hunting with Jack Abernathy, a rancher who was famous from Texas to Wyoming for being "a real coyote hunter."
He didn't shoot the coyotes -- dogs cornered them, then Abernathy wrestled the coyotes with his own hands. And to this day, Tillman County brags about Roosevelt coming to watch.
"But Abernathy cheated," Eoff says. "He wore a glove with spikes in it and he'd ram that glove down the coyote's throat. The coyote never had a chance."
When Eoff catches a coyote, he uses his bare hands. No gloves. No spikes.
"If a coyote bites down on me," he says, "I don't panic."
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