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and sniffed, then changed his course and set off for 

 the carcass. The carcass was being watched. As 

 the grizzly was the first animal to arrive after the 

 kill, the owner of the cow concluded that he was 

 guilty of the killing, and accordingly proceeded to 

 kill him and to condemn all bears as cattle-killers. 

 Yet this cow had died from feeding too freely upon 

 poisonous larkspur. 



I was once trailing a grizzly through the snow, 

 when he came upon the trail of a mountain lion, 

 which he followed. Farther along the lion killed a 

 horse. When the grizzly came upon the scene, he 

 drove the lion off. The following day, while having 

 a second feast off the horse, he was discovered by 

 a rancher, who at once procured dogs and pursued 

 and killed the "famous horse-killing grizzly." 



I have not heard of an authentic instance of a 

 grizzly's eating human flesh. Numbers of hunters 

 have been killed by grizzlies, but their bodies were 

 not eaten ; they were not killed for food. Many per- 

 sons have lost their lives from storms, accidents, 

 and starvation ; yet their bodies have lain for days 

 and weeks in territory frequented by grizzlies 

 without being eaten by them. A prospector, his 

 horse, and his burro were killed by a falling tree. 



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