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A CATTLE-KILLING BEAR 



HERE were, in 1897, a few 

 grizzlies left here and there 

 along the Little Missouri, 

 usually in large bottoms 

 covered with an almost 

 impenetrable jungle of timber and thorny 

 brush. In the old days they used to be 

 very plentiful in this region, and vent- 

 ured boldly out on the prairie. The 

 Little Missouri region was a famous hunt- 

 ing-ground for both the white trappers 

 and the Indian hunters in those old days 

 when the far West was still a wilderness, 

 and the men who trapped beaver would 

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