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generations. Often feared, frequently admired, his 

 brain and brawn are featured again and again ; he 

 is always the acknowledged chief and master of the 

 wilderness. 



Many are the names that he carries: grizzly 

 bear, silver-tip, white bear, bald-face, cinnamon 

 bear, roach-back, range bear, and others. 



The first printed mention of the grizzly that I 

 know of is one by Edward Umfreville, who, in 

 writing concerning Hudson's Bay in 1790, men- 

 tions the "Grizzle Bear." In 1795 Sir Alexander 

 MacKenzie writes of the "Grisly Bear." But the 

 grizzly was given a definite place in history when 

 Lewis and Clark mentioned him in their Journal, 

 in April, 1805, as the "white bear." Much that 

 they wrote was made public, and the bear's career 

 started, by Governor DeWitt Clinton in an ad- 

 dress before the Literary and Philosophical Society 

 of New York, May 4, 1814. 



As is shown by Guthrie's Geography, George 

 Ord, the naturalist, described and first classified 

 the grizzly as Ursus horribilis, in 1815. This was 

 from information which Brackenridge had gath- 

 ered, chiefly from the Journal of Lewis and Clark, 

 and was based on the "white bear'* of the type 



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