368 Recreations of a Sportsman 



Such a hunt took place on the present site of 

 Pasadena not so many years ago when a grizzly 

 and three cubs were all roped by a party of 

 Spanish gentlemen, and the late Mr. Hancock 

 Johnston. There was first the baiting of the 

 game, the discovery and attack at night, when 

 remarkably clever use of the lasso was seen. 

 The bear was laid on a skin, as described, 

 and dragged by the cavalcade to Los An- 

 geles, ten or twelve miles, where it was pitted 

 against a wild bull. The cubs were taken on 

 horseback. In dragging the grizzlies in, they 

 stampeded everything they met. Burros took 

 to the bush, giving the extraordinary cavalcade 

 right of way. In this manner, one of the most 

 dangerous of all big animals was taken from the 

 back of a horse with artistic throws of the riata, 

 the performance showing remarkable skill, brav- 

 ery, and nerve on the part of man and horse. 

 This I submit was real rough riding. 



