CHAPTER X 

 OLD EPHRAIM 



BUT few bears are found in the imme- 

 diate neighborhood of my ranch ; and 

 though I have once or twice seen their tracks 

 in the Bad Lands, I have never had any ex- 

 perience with the animals themselves except 

 during the elk-hunting trip on the Bighorn 

 Mountains, described in the preceding chap- 

 ter. 



The grizzly bear undoubtedly comes in the 

 category of dangerous game, and is, perhaps 

 the only animal in the United States that 

 can be fairly so placed, unless we count the 

 few jaguars found north of the Rio Grande. 

 But the danger of hunting the grizzly has 

 been greatly exaggerated, and the sport is 

 certainly very much safer than it was at 

 the beginning of this century. The first 



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