Notes on Memories of a Bear Hunter 



the meat of cows, calves and spikes (young bulls) is 

 very good, and by many is preferred to all other game. 



43. T. Elwood Hofer says as to this: "From 

 thirty-eight years' experience in the mountains of the 

 West, and four trips to Alaska, I am pretty certain 

 that neither the grizzly bear nor the Alaska brown 

 bear or Kadiak bear breed 'annually. There may be 

 exceptions to this rule. I have seen a female grizzly 

 with apparently two-year-old cubs and young cubs 

 with her. I have often seen female grizzlies with 

 three cubs; of course, one may be mistaken by not 

 seeing the same bears every year; we can only judge 

 from bears that we see in the Yellowstone Park, from 

 year to year, and think we recognize the same animal. 

 If they would kindly let us mark them, we could keep 

 better track of their habits, and ways of life." 



It is now believed by many naturalists that the fe- 

 male of the grizzly and great brown bear does not 

 bear young every year. 



44. General Miles' fight with the Bannocks was in 

 some hills near Clark's Fork of the Yellowstone. Here 

 Captain Andrew S. Bennett was killed, and the little 

 stream carries his name to-day. The hostile Bannocks 

 who escaped at the first attack later attempted to join 

 Tendoy's band. Tendoy had no sympathy for them, 

 and later turned them over to General Miles at Fort 

 Keogh. 



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