Nights with the Grizzlies 
plains: one party contending they were gray 
and the opposing party that they were white, 
each party citing his own restricted experi- 
ence with that fleet-footed animal. To those 
having more extended observation it was 
plain that each side was to a certain extent 
right as well as wrong, for it is well known 
that the jack-rabbit is gray during summer 
and fall and turns white in the winter, and then 
again sheds his white coat in spring: at least 
this is the case in Wyoming and Montana. 
So with the grizzly. He is essentially an 
omnivorous animal: his food varying with 
each season and the locality where such food 
is obtained, his habitat varies accordingly. 
He lies in his winter bed until routed out 
by the melting of the winter snow, and the 
ground being still frozen, he has to rustle for 
his grub. He soon becomes poor from the 
necessity of much traveling around for old 
carcasses and whatever food comes handy. 
He is then usually in the foot-hills. In the 
summer his food is more vegetable — grass, 
roots, plants, etc. His haunt is then on the 
highest mountain plateaus, where he does 
a great deal of rooting in a certain kind of 
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