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Sport and Life. 



to see until you erive. Come if you possibly can no one in this world 

 would be glader to see than Mr. Grohmen. I jist came ny gettin chawd 



up by a big sun of a B of a She Grezzlie whos cubb I had roped, 



hit was a close call and no mistake. 



In conclusion, I would like to point out that when speaking of 

 grizzlies, I use that term in the usual Western sense. The true 

 Californian grizzly I never killed, and I believe the only place 

 where it can be shot to-day is Alaska. 



THE BISON. 



So much has been written about this animal, and so familiar is 

 everyone with the picturesquely ungainly appearance of this extinct 

 beast extinct so far as the sportsman is concerned, that it is quite 



ONE OF THE OLDEST PICTURES OF THE AMERICAN BISON. 

 (From Hispaniae Novae, 1595.) 



unnecessary to add more than a few personal notes. Though I was 

 still fortunate enough to see them by thousands, the enormous 

 herds of hundreds of thousands that existed half a dozen years 

 before my first visit to America had already been decimated and 

 broken up. 



