During the greater part of my life I have lived in 

 a grizzly bear region. I have camped for months 

 alone and without a gun in their territory. I have 

 seen them when alone and when with hunters, in 

 Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Mexico, Wyoming, Mon- 

 tana, Idaho, Washington, British Columbia, and 

 Alaska. I have spent weeks trailing and watching 

 grizzlies, and their tracks in the snow showed that 

 they often trailed me. They frequently came close, 

 and there were times when they might have at- 

 tacked me with every advantage. But they did not 

 do so. As they never made any attack on me, nor 

 on any one else that I know of who was not bent on 

 killing them, I can only conclude that they are not 

 ferocious. 



Once I was running down a Wyoming mountain- 

 side, leaping fallen fire-killed timber, when sud- 

 denly I surprised a grizzly by landing within a few 

 feet of him. He leaped up and struck at me with 

 sufficient force to have almost cut me in two had 

 the blow landed. Then he instantly fled. This, how- 

 ever, was not ferocity. Plainly he thought himself 

 attacked and struck in self-defense. 



There are many naturalists and frontiersmen 

 who affirm from first-hand experience that the 



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