40 SrOliTING ADVENTURES IN THE FAR WEST. 



CHAPTER II. 



TIIE GRIZZLY BEAR. 



The Grizzly Bear. — Its Haunts, Habits, Size, and General Characteristics. 

 — Fear of the Human Voice. — Its great Strength and Courage. — Fight 

 between a Bear and Buffaloes. — The most Effective Means of killing 

 it. — Anecdotes of Men killed and wounded by it. — Best Weapons for 

 stalking it. — Is said not to touch a Man if he pretends to be Dead. — 

 Examples. — How three Indians captured One. — Great Warriors and 

 Grizzlies. — Value of Claws. — Judge Blank brings a Live Grizzly into 

 Camp in a New Way. — Grizzly Bill. — Two Indians treed. — Subsequent 

 Death of One. — A New Mode of killing a Grizzly in the West. — Its 

 Intractability and Selfish Nature. — How Mexicans capture it. — Is fre- 

 quently killed by Hunters and Sportsmen single-handed. — My First 

 Grizzly. — A Hunt after a Grizzly with Indians. — I am treed. — Death of 

 a Warrior.— The Funeral Ceremony. — The Body subsequently devoured 

 by Wolves. — A Comrade and Myself kill one in Wyoming. — A Grizzly 

 invades the Camp.— The Midnight Alarm and Hunt.— I wound a Cub, 

 and am chased by the Dam. — The Retreat. — Indian Anecdote of the 

 Affection of a Grizzly for her Young. — Horseback Hunt with Greasers 

 in California. — Our Trophies. — Death of a Horse, and wounding of its 

 Rider. — We lasso Two Cubs. — Which is the King of Beasts — the Lion 

 or the Grizzly ? 



The grizzly bear ( Ursus Jwrribilis or ferox) ranges from 

 Mexico in the south to British America in the north, and 

 from the Rocky Mountains in the east to the hills adjoining 

 the Pacific Ocean south of the forty-second parallel of north 

 latitude in the west. In size, strength, and ferocity it is the 

 monarch of the American animal world, and even man him- 

 self has to yield it undisputed sway in many cases. It dif- 

 fers from all its family not only in ponderosity of propor- 

 tions, but in courage, fierceness, and intractability, and in 

 being more strongly carnivorous, with the exception, per- 

 haps, of the polar -bear. It also ranks far above them in 

 the enormous size of its soles, the length of its claws, and 

 the breadth and depth of its head ; but it is inferior to them 

 in length of tail, and in the quality of its fur and flesh. I 



