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shot was ineffective. It is not surprising that in 

 most cases those attempting to kill the grizzly 

 either were overpowered by him or succeeded only 

 through force of numbers and with the loss of some 

 of the assailants. But the ability of the grizzly to 

 withstand such attacks and to defend himself has 

 been confused with ferocity. 



The grizzly is a fighting-machine of the first or- 

 der and with the weapons of two or three genera- 

 tions ago he often sold his life most dearly. In a 

 short time the grizzly had the reputation of being a 

 terrible fighter, and along with this he was given 

 the reputation of being ferocious — of being an 

 awful hunter of man. For the grizzly to repel effec- 

 tually those who went out to attack him is a very 

 different thing from his going out to hunt and to 

 attack people who were not molesting him. This 

 latter he has never done. 



The words of Umfreville, MacKenzie, Bracken- 

 ridge, Clinton, and Lewis and Clark bring out 

 strongly that the grizzly is a fighter, formidable, 

 perhaps unequaled. Their opinion on this point is 

 supported by ample first-hand testimony down 

 through the years, from all over the grizzly terri- 

 tory. But it has not been established that the griz- 



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