| Show BEAR HUNTING IN THE it Is rather slow work now the animals are so caution bear hunting as a rule I 1 do not thinie would appeal to most sportsmen it is rather slow work and one is often very inadequately rewarded for the amount of time and trouble spent in hunting up bruin there is hardly a portion of the mountains where there are not evidences of bear but 1 do not believe that in any locality they are especially abundant they have been hunted and trapped sc long that choso who survive are extremely cautious in my experience there is no animal gifted with a greater amount of intelligence and in this region hunters chief virtue patience to wait and stay in one spot is sure to be rewarded sooner or later with a good shot let me say now that the danger and ferocity of the bear is I 1 think very much overstated yet there is just enough element of danger to make the pursuit ol 01 this animal exciting naturalists Natura lists do not now apparently recognize more than two varieties of bear in the rocky mountains that is they class the cinnamon balver tip and grizzly as grizzly bear the other variety of course is the black bear I 1 am by no means sure that the grizzly bear will not be further subdivided after careful comparisons of collections of skulls much has been said and written about tho size and weight of the grizzly bear and in most instances this has been mere guess work lewis and clark made frequent mention of this animal and yet their estimate of the weight falla far below that of other writers only a few instances have come to my knowledge where the weight haa been ascertained absolutely A good sized grizzly killed in yellow atone park by wilson the government scout weighed pounds colonel pickett who has a neighboring ranch to mine and who has killed more bear than any man 1 know of weighed his largest which if 1 remember rightly weighed pounds archibald rogers in scrib ners |
