One cattle outfit after another was 

 attacked, and the whole country seemed 

 divided up among Bears of incred- 

 ible size, cunning, and destructiveness. 

 The cattlemen offered bounties good 

 bounties, growing bounties, very large 

 bounties at last but still the Bears 

 kept on. Very few were killed, and it 

 became a kind of rude jest to call each 

 section of the range, not by the cattle 

 brand, but by the Grizzly that was 

 quartered on its stock. 



Wonderful tales were told of these 

 various Bears of the new breed. The 

 swiftest was Reelfoot, the Placerville 

 cattle-killer that could charge from a 

 thicket thirty yards away and certainly 

 catch a steer before it could turn and 

 run, and that could even catch ponies 

 in the open when they were poor. 

 The most cunning of all was Brin, 

 the Mokelumne Grizzly that killed by 



