A Cattle-killing Bear 



The bold white hunters also passed away 

 with the bears they had chased and the 

 red foes against whom they had warred. 

 In their places the ranchman came in with 

 great herds of cattle and horses and 

 flocks of sheep, and built their log cabins 

 and tilled their scanty garden-patches, 

 and cut down the wild hay for winter 

 fodder. Now bears are as shy as they 

 are scarce. No grizzly in such a settled 

 region would dream of attacking a man 

 unprovoked, and they pass their days in 

 the deepest thickets, so that it is almost 

 impossible to get at them. I never 

 killed a bear in the neighborhood of my 

 former ranch, though I have shot quite a 

 number some hundreds of miles to the 

 west in the Rocky Mountains. 



Usually the bears live almost ex- 

 clusively on roots, berries, insects, and 

 the like. In fact, there is always some- 

 thing grotesque and incongruous in com- 

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