156 BOOK OF A HUNDRED BEARS 



The Canon Hotel is a big, barny looking building, 

 but charming inside. It stands on high ground, 

 looking far up and down the Yellowstone, and 

 this is the place where you see the grizzlies. 



Just why no one knows, but hardly any other 

 bears come here. No one cares to bother a silver 

 tip. He prefers solitude and gets it. No one 

 cares to neighbor with them, for you never know 

 when they may take a notion to charge you. A 

 stableman for one of the transportation companies 

 was out a couple of miles from the Canon Hotel 

 one night, looking for stray horses. As he entered 

 a little glade, a big bull elk dashed through closely 

 pursued by a grizzly. The stableman yelled, the 

 grizzly stopped a moment, and then started after 

 him. As he expressed it, ''I just natchully faded 

 away. I reckon that atmosphere is all het up 

 yet with the way I come through it." They are 

 afraid of nothing. When you consider that they 

 get to weigh all the way up to a ton or more, and 

 many stand eight feet high when erect, 'you 

 realize that they are not family pets. 



The feeding hour at the Canon Hotel is five 



