Nights with the Grizzlies 
In this paper I propose to give an account 
of some experience with the grizzly bear in 
the summer and fall of 1885. Here let me 
correct some impressions prevailing among 
sportsmen from the East as to the proper 
time to hunt this animal. As detailed in the 
sporting papers, one sportsman hunting late 
in the fall finds them at the timber-line, and 
having some success and basing his opinion 
upon statements of his guide, is satisfied that 
is the only place to find them, and that 
you must stealthily follow the trail through 
dense timber, as he did. Another sports- 
man finds them below the foot-hills among 
the Bad” Lands, and thinks that isthe 
proper locality; and so each one is gov- 
erned by his own particular good luck and 
experience, his reminds me ‘or the heared 
controversy that agitated some of the readers 
of one of the sporting papers a few years 
since as to the color of the jack-rabbit of the 
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