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close, but he lingers to watch the bear and perhaps 

 her cubs. He sees them play. Often, too, he has 

 the experience of seeing wilderness etiquette when 

 other bears or animals come into the scene. The 

 information that he gathers and his enjoyment ex- 

 cel those obtained by the man with a gun. 



Roosevelt has said and shown that the hunter 

 whose chief interest is in shooting has but little out 

 of the hunt. Audubon did a little shooting for speci- 

 mens. Wright had as many thrills with the camera 

 as with the rifle. Adams was far happier and more 

 useful with his live grizzlies than he was killing 

 other grizzlies. Emerson McMillin was satisfied to 

 hunt without either gun or camera. The words and 

 sketches of Ernest Thompson Seton have given us 

 much of the artistic side of the wilderness. Dr. 

 Frank M. Chapman explored two continents for the 

 facts of bird-lore and in addition to his books pre- 

 pared the magnificent bird-groups in the American 

 Museum of Natural History. Thoreau enjoyed life 

 in the wilderness without a gun. But John Muir 

 was the supreme wilderness hunter and wanderer. 

 He never carried a gun. Usually he was in the wilds 

 alone. He spent years in a grizzly bear country. 

 But the wealth of nature-lore with which he en- 



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