Bear Traits 



The Yellowstone Park now presents the best 

 chance for observing the habits of bears that 

 has ever been offered, for though they are 

 wild in theory, yet in practice they have come 

 to frequenting the hotels at dusk and after 

 nightfall, as if they were half tame at least; 

 and it is earnestly to be wished that some 

 Boone and Crockett member who, unlike the 

 present writer, does not belong to the labor- 

 ing classes, would devote a month or two, or 

 indeed a whole season, to the serious study 

 of the life history of these bears. It would be 

 time very well spent. 



Theodore Roosevelt, 



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MODERN BEAR BAITING 



Watching at a bait for game is intrinsically 

 a much lower form of sport than stalking it. 

 There is no opportunity for the prolonged 

 generalship and shifting of tactics which lend 

 to the stalking of mountain sheep, for in- 

 stance, such fascinating interest. But to the 

 modern hunter of bears in the West, especi- 

 ally in the autumn, there is practically no 

 other method open. Instead of the easy- 



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