234 WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALS 
mean success for the survival of the species— 
the ability to make a living, the postponing of 
death, and the production of offspring. 
The Echo Mountain grizzly had individuality 
and an adventurous career. This heroic grizzly 
mother might be called an emigrant or an exile, 
or even a refugee. Though crippled, she dared 
to become a pioneer. All that men learned 
of. her eventful life was a story of struggles and 
triumphs—the material for the biography of a 
character. 
The next July a camper in following the track 
of a snowslide came upon a three-legged mother 
grizzly and two cubs. They were eating the 
carcass of a deer that was just thawing from the 
snow and débris brought down by the snowslide. 
The grizzly was nearly white, one cub was brown, 
and the other dark gray. 
As the camper went on with his burro he 
noticed the bear watching him from among trees 
across a little glacier meadow. He camped that 
night on a small stream at the foot of an enor- 
mous moraine a few miles from the place where 
he had seen the bear. Returning from picketing 
the burro he chanced to glance at the skyline 
summit of the moraine. Upon it the three- 
legged bear stood watching him. She was 
looking down with curious interest at his tent, 
his campfire, and the burro. Surely this crip- 
