APPENDIX A 



The frontispiece I owe to the courtesy of Mr. Theodore 

 Pitman, a fellow Harvard student of Archie's, whom we 

 met on Buckskin Mountain; being both a hunter and a 

 lover of the picturesque, he was as much impressed as 

 we were by the scene when a cougar stood in a pine, 

 with the Grand Canyon as a background. The photo- 

 graph at the end of the book is by Doctor Alexander 

 Lambert, and the tail-piece is from a photograph by him. 



I had been told by old hunters that black bears would 

 sometimes attack moose calves, and in one instance, in 

 the Rockies, my informant described to me how a big 

 grizzly, but a few weeks out of its den in spring, attacked 

 and slew full-grown moose. I was not surprised at the 

 latter statement, having myself come across cattle- 

 killing grizzlies; but I wondered at a black bear, which 

 is not much of a beast of prey, venturing to meddle with 

 the young of so formidable a fighter as a moose. How- 

 ever, it is true. Recently my nephew Hall Roosevelt, 

 who was working at Dawson City, went on a moose hunt 

 in the valley of the Yukon. One night a moose cow 

 passed by the camp, having first swum a stream in front 

 of the camp. She was followed at some little distance 

 by a calf. The latter halted near the camp. Suddenly 

 a black bear, with a tremendous crashing of branches, 

 came with a rush through the bushes, and seized the 

 calf; although it was driven off, it had with its teeth so 

 injured the spine of the calf that they were obliged to 

 shoot the latter. 



On a hunt in the Northern Rockies, Archie met a man 

 who had two dogs, an ordinary track-hound and a Rus- 



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