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mean success for the survival of the species 

 the ability to make a living, the postponing of 

 death, and the production of offspring. 



The Echo Mountain grizzly had individuality 

 and an adventurous career. This heroic grizzly 

 mother might be called an emigrant or an exile, 

 or even a refugee. Though crippled, she dared 

 to become a pioneer. All that men learned 

 of her eventful life was a story of struggles and 

 triumphs the material for the biography of a 

 character. 



The next July a camper in following the track 

 of a snowslide came upon a three-legged mother 

 grizzly and two cubs. They were eating the 

 carcass of a deer that was just thawing from the 

 snow and debris brought down by the snowslide. 

 The grizzly was nearly white, one cub was brown, 

 and the other dark gray. 



As the camper went on with his burro he 

 noticed the bear watching him from among trees 

 across a little glacier meadow. He camped that 

 night on a small stream at the foot of an enor- 

 mous moraine a few miles from the place where 

 he had seen the bear. Returning from picketing 

 the burro he chanced to glance at the skyline 

 summit of the moraine. Upon it the three- 

 legged bear stood watching him. She was 

 looking down with curious interest at his tent, 

 his campfire, and the burro. Surely this crip- 



