NOTES ON MEMORIES OF A BEAR HUNTER 

 BY GEO. BIRD GRINNELL 



To many readers the years told of in Colonel 

 Pickett's Memories will seem a period of romance, and 

 it is true that they deal with ancient history. Of his 

 references and allusions to people, places and events, 

 some or many though matters of common knowl- 

 edge at the time of which he writes have now long 

 been forgotten, except by the small number of people 

 who were familiar with those times. It was not long 

 after the years referred to in the last chapters of these 

 Memories that much of the West was overswept by 

 a tide of immigration, and a new population, occupied 

 with new and personal affairs, came into the country, 

 and by their numbers overwhelmed the older popula- 

 tion, and effaced the memory of a multitude of the 

 old events. 



For this reason, it seemed desirable that some of 

 Colonel Pickett's chapters should be annotated with 

 some fullness, and Colonel Pickett received the sug- 

 gestion with much satisfaction and wholly approved 

 of it. 



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