1 62 Sport and Life. 



the skin of which measured 65 square feet, being at the narrowest 

 point 6ft., and in length gft., makes one's mouth water. 



Of a yet larger Nevada grizzly skin Sheard, the Tacoma taxider- 

 mist, sends me an interesting photograph.. This skin, he says,, 

 measures lift. 4in. in length and ioft. in width. These dimen- 

 sions are almost a match for the famous San Francisco show 

 grizzly, who is said to have weighed iSoolb. An essential 

 point, which the bear hunter should never forget, is the fact that to 

 be successful, local knowledge concerning the feeding places of Bruin 

 is absolutely necessary. During the warmer season of the year 

 Bruin is constantly on the move, following up the various growths 

 of wild fruit and berries of which he is so fond. " Hunt the 

 berries and you will find the bear," is a saying of the Northern 

 Coast Indians, and from what I have seen, this holds good also for 

 the interior. 



Bear often behave in the most unexpected manner. One of 

 the first silvertips that I killed it was, I must at once confess, a 

 partnership-bear fell victim to suicidal recklessness of this kind. 

 It was in the Big Windriver Valley, and I was camped at " Never- 

 sweat," as Bonanza Clark, a great old hunter, had called his log 

 shanty on account of its elevation. He was then the only white 

 man who had settled in the valley, the nearest habitation, Fort 

 Washakee, being ninety miles off. He knew the mountains 

 round his home most thoroughly. I had been complaining to 

 him about my bad luck with bear, and he had proposed to 

 accompany me on a week's trip to a certain square-topped 

 mountain where he said " bear was as thick as foolhens." We 

 were to start the following morning, and da,wn saw us getting 

 ready. 



Bonanza Clark's little shanty the photograph of it was taken for 

 me some years later by Mr. E. N. Buxton, who enjoyed some good 

 sport in that vicinity stood with its back close to the bank of the 

 river, where it was possible to ford it. In front of the shanty there 

 was a large bit of open, fairly level ground, covered with sage brush 

 two feet or so in height. We were having pur breakfast, and as 



