WILDERNESS RESERVES 



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girl at one of the hotels has thus developed a bear as 

 a pet. 



The accompanying photographs not only show bears 

 very close up, with men standing by within a few yards 

 of them, but they also show one bear being fed from, the 

 piazza by a cook, and another standing beside a particular 

 friend, a chambermaid in one of the hotels. In these 

 photographs it will be seen that some are grizzlies and 

 some black bears. 



This whole episode of bear life in the Yellowstone is 

 so extraordinary that it will be well worth while for any 

 man who has the right powers and enough time, to make 

 a complete study of the life and history of the Yellow- 

 stone bears. Indeed, nothing better could be done by 

 some of our out-door faunal naturalists than to spend at 

 least a year in the Yellowstone, and to study the life 

 habits of all the wild creatures therein. A man able to 

 do this, and to write down accurately and interestingly 

 what he had seen, would make a contribution of perma- 

 nent value to our nature literature. 



In May, after leaving the Yellowstone, I visited the 

 Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and then went through 

 the Yosemite Park with John Muir the companion 

 above all others for such a trip. It is hard to make com- 

 parisons among different kinds of scenery, all of them 

 very grand and very beautiful; but nothing that I have 

 ever seen has impressed me quite as much as the desolate 

 and awful sublimity of the Grand Canyon of the Colo- 

 rado. I earnestly wish that Congress would make it a 

 national park, and I am sure that such course would meet 



