CHAPTER X. 



OLD EPHRAIM 



UT few bears are found in the 

 immediate neighborhood of my 

 ranch ; and though I have once 

 or twice seen their tracks in the 

 Bad Lands, I have never had 

 any experience with the animals 

 themselves except during the elk- 

 hunting trip on the Bighorn 

 Mountains, described in the pre- 

 ceding chapter. 



The grizzly bear undoubtedly comes in the category 

 of dangerous game, and is, perhaps, the only animal in 

 the United States that can be fairly so placed, unless 

 we count the few jaguars found north of the Rio Grande. 

 But the danger of hunting the grizzly has been greatly 

 exaggerated, and the sport is certainly very much safer 

 than it was at the .beginning of this century. The first 



hunters who came into contact with this great bear 



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