Nights with the Grizzlies 



In this paper I propose to give an account 

 of some experience with the grizzly bear in 

 the summer and fall of 1885. Here let me 

 correct some impressions prevailing among 

 sportsmen from the East as to the proper 

 time to hunt this animal. As detailed in the 

 sporting papers, one sportsman hunting late 

 in the fall finds them at the timber-line, and 

 having some success and basing his opinion 

 upon statements of his guide, is satisfied that 

 is the only place to find them, and that 

 you must stealthily follow the trail through 

 dense timber, as he did. Another sports- 

 man finds them below the foot-hills among 

 the Bad Lands, and thinks that is the 

 proper locality ; and so each one is gov- 

 erned by his own particular good luck and 

 experience. This reminds me of the heated 

 controversy that agitated some of the readers 

 of one of the sporting papers a few years 

 since as to the color of the jack-rabbit of the 



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