XXIV 

 CONCLUSION 



1DO not profess to know everything about the grizzly. 

 I do not believe that any one person can, of his own 

 knowledge, know all that is to be known about any animal. 

 Unless, indeed, he has followed and watched and studied 

 that animal in all the different localities and under all the 

 differing conditions where it exists, he is liable to find him- 

 self generalizing even in regard to its more obvious habits 

 and characteristics from insufficient data. 



Some years ago, while hunting in the Bitter Roots, one 

 of the party who had hunted elk in other parts of the coun- 

 try, and especially in the Olympic Mountains in Washing- 

 ton, asked me if there were any elderberry bushes in the 

 Bitter Roots. I told him that there were many of them. 

 He replied that he would not, in that case, need any one to 

 show him where to hunt elk, as they would be found 

 wherever these bushes grew. So, after much explora- 

 tion, he selected a large side hill covered with this growth, 

 and there he put in most of his time for a week watching 

 for elk that never came. The other members of the party 

 had killed their game long before this man could be made 

 to believe that the Bitter Root elk were not Olympic elk 



and did not live on these bushes. 



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