VII. 

 TREEING A BEAR 



Away back in the "fifties" bears were as 

 numerous on the banks of the Willamette 

 River, in Oregon, as are hogs in the hick 

 ory woods of Kentucky in nut time, and 

 that is saying that bears were mighty 

 plenty in Oregon about forty years ago. 



You see, after the missionaries estab 

 lished their great cattle ranches in Oregon 

 and gathered the Indians from the wilder 

 ness and set them to work and fed them 

 on beef and bread, the bears had it all 

 their own way, till they literally overran 

 the land. And this gave a great chance for 

 sport to the sons of missionaries and the 

 sons of new settlers "where rolls the Ore 

 gon." 



And it was not perilous sport, either, 

 for the grizzly was rarely encountered 



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