l'IioIo by George Shiras, 3rd 



KlvK AT SOUTH KND OF YKI^I^OW STONE I.AKE 



Along the outer shores of the south and southeast arms and on the big promontory were 

 numerous elk, while throughout the river valley they occupied the hills above the moose, 

 coming down often to feed in the valley meadows. They ate willows to some extent, about 

 the sole dependence of the moose in winter ; but by October i began migrating to lower 

 ground. The above picture shows a big bull and his family migrating south. 



having been broken off at the base with- 

 out being uprooted. The animal, tripped 

 and thrown to one side by the collision, 

 rolled over on its back and for a second 

 lay there motionless, with four big feet 

 sticking rigidly up into the air. Then 

 he scrambled up again, and I saw that he 

 was headed in the opposite direction 

 from that in which he had been going; 

 so he had turned a complete somersault — 

 quite a performance for an 800-pound 

 animal. But all sense of direction had 

 been lost, and with another rush the bear 

 passed the cameras and shot out over the 

 bank, catching with his feet, as I discov- 

 ered later, a large boulder, and together 

 they went in a heap to the bottom. 



"By this time I was beginning to 

 chuckle. The next move was a plunge 

 through the fringe of bushes between the 

 elk trail and the lake shore, and 75 yards 

 away I saw him cross into a small gully, 

 up which I could trace his going and, 

 later, his ascent of the mountain slope by 



the rolling of the loose stones and shale. 

 Finally all was still save the silvery rip- 

 ples breaking on the beach. 



"Examining the seat of war, I found 

 that the huge flash, placed entirely too 

 near the cameras, had burned most of the 

 leather off the boxes^ and little was left 

 of the flashlight machine except the bed- 

 plate. The leaves on the overhanging 

 poplars were burned or whitened for a 

 distance of 30 feet, and altogether the 

 place presented a scene of devastation. 



"Looking the ground over in front of 

 the cameras, I saw where the bear had 

 made the first whirl as the flash exploded, 

 when he was not over two feet away.J 

 While I was gazing from the tent th( 

 bear evidently had been standing erectj 

 possibly wondering whether the brighl 

 barrels of the lenses contained raspberr} 

 jam, as sugested by his experience th( 

 night before, when his teeth pierced th( 

 can of jam. As he dropped upon all 

 fours it gave the appearance of 



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