American Big-Game Hunting 
Let me say that the danger and ferocity of 
the bear is, I think, very much over-stated, yet 
there is just enough of the element of danger 
to make the pursuit of this animal exciting. 
Naturalists do not now apparently recognize 
more than two varieties of bear in the Rocky 
Mountains; that is, they class the cinnamon, 
silver-tip, and grizzly as grizzly bear. The 
other variety, of course, is the black bear. I 
am by no means sure that the grizzly bear 
will not be further subdivided after careful 
comparisons of collections of skulls. 
Much has been said and written about the 
size and weight of the grizzly bear, and in 
most instances this has been mere guess- 
work. Lewis and Clark made frequent men- 
tion of this animal, and yet their estimates of 
the weight fall far below that of other 
writers. Only a few instances have come 
to my knowledge where the weight has been 
ascertained absolutely. A good-sized grizzly 
killed in Yellowstone Park one summer by 
Wilson, the Government scout, weighed six 
hundred pounds. Colonel Pickett, who has 
a neighboring ranch to mine, and who has 
killed more bears than any man I know of, 
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