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The grizzly usually frequents the timbered or 

 brush-covered portions of mountainous regions, or 

 the timbered valleys of streams that head in the 

 mountains. He occasionally follows down the course 

 of these streams, and even travels many miles from 

 one stream to another, or from one^ range of mount- 

 ains to another, across open prairie. I once found 

 one on a broad open plateau in the Big Horn 

 Mountains, about half a mile from the nearest 

 cover of any kind. He was turning over rocks in 

 search of worms. At the report of my rifle he started 

 for the nearest canon, but never reached it. An 

 explosive bullet through his lungs rendered him 

 unequal to the journey. 



Few persons believe that a grizzly will attack a 

 man before he is himself attacked. I was one of 

 these doubting Thomases until a few years ago, 

 when I was thoroughly convinced by ocular demon- 

 stration that some grizzlies, at least, will attempt to 

 make a meal off a man even though he may not have 

 harmed them previously. We were hunting in the 

 Shoshone Mountains in Northern Wyoming. I had 

 killed a large elk in the morning, and on going back 

 to the carcass in the afternoon to skin it we saw that 

 Bruin had been there ahead us, but had fled on our 

 approach. Without the least apprehension of his 

 return, we leaned our rifles against a tree about fifty 

 feet away, and commenced work. There were three 

 of us, but only two rifles, Mr. Huffman, the photog- 

 rapher, having left his in camp. He had finished 

 taking views of the carcass, and we were all busily 

 engaged skinning, when, hearing a crashing in the 

 brush and a series of savage roars and growls, we 



