THE BEAR "MONARCH." 171 



Some years ago the ranchmen and va- 

 queros frequently caught bears with a 

 rope, but even then it was difficult to train 

 horses to the work, and only one horse out 

 of a hundred could be cured of his instinc- 

 tive dread of a grizzly. 



It was clear also that there were some 

 defects in the plan of driving the Stone 

 Corral bear out of the brush, chief of which 

 was the bear's inconsiderate desire to do 

 the driving himself. As the hunting would 

 have to be done afoot, the prospects inci- 

 dent to an attempt to round up a big griz- 

 zly among the rocks and chaparral were 

 not peculiarly alluring. Trapping was the 

 only other method that could be suggested, 

 but the absence of any heavy timber would 

 make that difficult. 



The Stone Corral is a singular arrange- 

 ment of huge sandstone ledges on the slope 

 of a mountain, forming a rough inclosure 

 about a quarter of a mile wide and three 

 or four times as long. The country is very 



rugged and broken for miles around, and 

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