BEAR AND FORBEAR 



HE Bitter Root Grizzly 

 is the toughest of bears. 

 Every one knows that, 

 and he lives in the 

 roughest country. In 

 fact life becomes gener- 

 ally superlative when hunting him. 

 One is either going up, or going down, 

 either travelling around boulders, 

 which is abominable, or over slide 

 rock, which is worse. Nothing is level 

 nor easy. The mountains reveal their 

 anatomy of rocks in the most har- 

 dened fashion with only here and 

 there a patch of vegetation, scrub oak 

 or stunted pine to cover them. A 





