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[Sept. 28, 1901. 
were so that anyone else could kill him. He would 
rather get someone like myself, who has lost a grizzly, 
to come out and do the killing than to shoot the old 
fellow himself. 
At Joe Kipp's we learned of everything that had hap- 
pened in the past two weeks, how Joe Brown had missed 
us and gone up the St. Mary's and how Joe Kipp himself 
had been detained by the horse roundup. I do not 
know how I can sufficiently thank big-hearted Joe Kipp 
for all his kindness on this trip, which was certainly a 
busy one and which all my friends tell me was a very 
lucky one. 
Curious and eventful enough all this must have seemed 
to Madame, who thus made her first visit to the inimit- 
able region of the Rockies. I hear of little items re- 
garding incidents experienced there every day and ex- 
pect to continue to do so for years to come. Madame's 
bravery began to rise about the time we were nearly 
across Dakota. I can truthful!}' say that she was scared 
almost to a finish every minute of the time she was up 
in the mountains. Yet her own experience is proof 
enough that a lady can go into the Rocky Mountain 
country with perfect ease, safety and comfort, and can 
have an experience worth remembering for a life time. 
Some iittle items regarding our outfit and experiences 
may prove of service to those who intend going on a 
bear hunt — and I surely hope someone will go out and 
kill that grizzly of mine, since it is not likely I can get 
out again after him very soon. 
Madame's clothing was made up of wool. In this 
mountain country the side saddle is unknown, and a 
woman must ride astride in the only sensible fashion, 
We, therefore, tabooed the encumbering skirt and made 
a pair of roomy trousers, fitted close around the ankle 
and loose above the ankle. These trousers were of 
heavy cloth, about the weight of a mackinaw. A mack- 
inaw coat of the same pattern as that worn by men and 
a broad, white hat, with stout shoes and overshoes, made 
up the rest of the costume, which was found entirely 
comfortable and serviceable. Madame gained the name 
of "the Sergeant" around camp, but in time came to 
glory in the freedom of bifurcated clothes. I do not 
think any woman can be comfortable climbing about in 
the mountains with any sort of skirt to hamper her. 
As to the bear gun, I found my .30-40, with the hol- 
low point steel jacket, all the bear gun that anyone could 
ask and the one which I am going to use after this. I do 
not think these bullets are generally on the market. 
The packages are marked "Specially loaded." I got 
them on Billy Hofer's suggestion and sent direct to the 
factory for them. They certainh' made a tremendousl}' 
destructive load. And yet I found that my gun handled 
these charges beautifully up to one hundred and one 
hundred and twenty-five yards, beyond -which I did not 
try them, -They are said to be not so accurate at long 
range as the soft-nosed bullet. 
Now, some points as to putting up a bear bait, and 
these arc points learned from bear hunters like old John 
Monroe and young Jack Monroe, than whom I presume 
there are no two better bear hunters in America to-day. 
The ordinary impression is that you can take your bear 
bait out almost anywhere, kill it in almost any kind of 
locality, and safely expect that the bear will find it. Let 
me disabuse the tyro's mind of this impression. There is 
much to be done in the skillful placing of the bear bait. 
In the first place, Joe Kipp showed us the long bear 
ridge where he told us the grizzlies first appeared in 
the spring. This was very well, though, after the snow 
has begun to go, I think the bears retire to thicker 
cover, more especially the black bears. The grizzly 
bears cross the little open parks and root around in the 
softest dirt they can find. But T believe that nowadays 
almost any kind of a bear is apt to remain close to 
cover and not to show himself in the open any more 
than he can help. 
The first thing, then, in putting out a bear bait, is to 
get on the range of the bears. Collins had done this ad- 
mirably with his first bait, though that spot was not so 
good later in the sea.'^on as it was at the time he put 
out his first bait. Moreover, he had been especially for-, 
tunate in other regards. He had placed the bait where 
it could be seen from a considerable distance, and also 
where it could be approached at close range by the hun- 
ter when stalking for his shot. It must be remembered 
by the novice in bear hunting that he does not stay 
close to his bait while waiting for his bear, but on the 
contrary, keeps off a long way and watches the bait with 
his glasses. Moreover, when approaching his lookout 
point, the blind, as I may call it, he must very, carefully 
scan all the country around him. especially in the neigh- 
borhood of his bait. A bear, when approaching to feed, 
looks all about him carefully, and sometimes make a 
circuit or two around the bait to assure himself that 
there are no enemies about. lie may feed for awhile 
and then go ofif and lie down a short distance from the 
bait. Hence, if the hunter shows himself against the 
sky line, he may scare the bear while he is half a mile 
away. At both of our baits we had a good lookout 
ground and a good shooting ground. We found that the 
first bait was badly located in one vital regard. Suppos- 
ing that cover of the bears was to be found in the five 
or six miles of black forest which lies around the Two 
Medicine Lake, then this bait should have been located 
four or five miles farther up in the direction of the prev- 
alent wind. As it was, the prevailing winds did not 
' carry the scent of this carcass in the direction of the 
supposed hiding place of the game. This is a question 
which should always be regarded by one in putting out 
a bait. 
There are two things which must be kept in mind also 
from the standpoint of the bear. He must have thick 
and continuous cover near by the bait, and he must 
have running water not far away. So you see there are 
many points to be studied when locating your bear 
bait. 
In approaching a bear, even when it is busily engaged 
in feeding, the hunter needs to use just as much caution 
as he does in stalking a sheep, an elk or a deer. To 
reiterate. T do not believe anj' of these bears are danger- 
ous in these modern days. The thing to be remembered 
is. that the bear is a very shy creature, continually on 
the alert and possessed of a. very keen scent. His eye 
sight is not very good, but his nose is very keen. Hence, 
in coming up to the bait, one mmt b? syre ^9 §\a,\k up 
wind. His bait must be laid out in such a way that this 
is possible. 
Most bear hunters do not disembowel a horse where 
It is put out as bait, thinking that the odor is stronger 
when this is not done. Jack Monroe differs from these. 
He always opens the carcass, saying that this allows the 
scent of the blood to sweep across the country at once, 
whereas otherwise one might have to wait for nearly a 
week before the carcass gave out much odor. 
A very important part of this kind of hunting is the 
drag. This obviates a large part of the necessity for 
having the wind blow from your bait across the cover. 
We think that the bear I killed certainly followed in 
the drag we had laid out before, and we are sure that 
the little bear which first came in at the bait followed 
the drag which Collins and I had run the day previous 
to that. Wolves, we know, will follow this drag, for 
one drag which Jack and I laid out we found the next 
morning entirely eaten up by coyotes. 
I regret very much to state that many of my illusions 
regarding the ferocity and dangerous qualities of the 
grizzly bear have been dispelled. It is a very easy mat- 
ter with a modern rifle to kill a very big bear with a 
single shot. Your trouble will not be to kill the bear, 
but to find him. If, in the shooting, you "have some 
sca:-es," as John Monroe expresses it, then, indeed, you 
must be still rather tender about the feet. There is 
no use whatever in being scared of bears in these scien- 
tific times. If you are very close to a grizzly in thick 
cover, and if you shoot him clumsily, he might come at 
you and make you trouble. Jack Monroe recounts two 
such cases in his own life, and he speaks respectfully of 
the grizzly. Dan Doty, the old Kallispel bear hunter, 
says that he shot a trapped grizzly three times through 
the body near the heart before he killed it, and he also 
has a certain respect for so difficult a proposition. Yet 
none of these men were tangled up with bears shot 
through with the hollow-point bullet which I have de- 
scribed. I believe one such shot is enough for the best 
of them. This conclusion, I must admit, is based upon 
a very small experience; to wit, that of only one bear. 
Some time, let us hope, the experience may be more 
extended. 
As to putting out steel traps for coyotes when you are 
bear hunting, or walking around close to your bait, or 
touching it, or putting out strychnine for wolves any- 
where in the neighborhood — ^I can only decry these 
practices as possible to none but the worst sort of a ten- 
derfoot! If luck breaks down such a hedge of folly, 
then it is simply your good fortune. 
As to the prospect for bear, we felt all along that we 
were in a poor bear country and in a poor game coun- 
try, for the Two Medicine showed little enough sign. 
And 5-et, when we began to go out and work and not 
stand around and wonder about it, we saw that after all 
there was some game in the country. We saw signs of 
one little band of elk, one very good bull. We saw two 
white goats, one splendid big horn ram, eight ewes an.'l 
yearlings, to say nothing of much other sign of sheep 
and elk. The country seemed to be pretty well occupied 
by little bunches of elk, mostly cows and yearlings. 
The bears we saw unmistakably proved that one big 
brown bear and one smaller bear were at the first bait. 
We repeatedly saw sign of what we took to be these 
same two bears on the lower side of the lake in the 
timber back of our camp. It must be remembered that, 
the first da.y I went out, I saw the sign of a black bear, 
and Collins and I saw the same trail, or another one, on 
the day following. Jack Monroe and I in one of our 
hunts followed the trail of four bears in one bunch, and 
on that day we saw three other bear trails, so that we 
figured there were perhaps seven and certainly six dif- 
ferent bears on that mountain side at that time. He also 
saw a trail of a grizzly and two cubs, as earlier men- 
tioned. On !'ie very next day after that, as I have above 
tecounted, we saw four bears in one bunch, and one of 
these a splendid grizzly. It is possible that this was 
the only grizzly in on the Two Medicine this spring. 
It was a remarkable specimen. Now add all these un- 
mistakable evidences of bears, the two grizzlies and one 
black bear which were killed in the St. Mary's countrv. 
and you have what is probably as good a bear showing 
as you would be very apt to find in the Rocky Mountains. 
It is all a matter of luck and hazard, this bear hunt- 
ing. Old John Monroe said he liked the Heart Butte 
range and the Badger Creek country, which was east 
o( where we were, and where we intended to go in 
originally. Jack Monroe said he didn't care to go into 
that country at all. Jack Monroe said that he had three 
hoises eaten up slick and clean last simimer not far 
from where we had left our last bait- He thinks this 
may have been done by black bear. I am perfectly clear 
in my mind that, had I been able to sta}'- a week or two 
longer in that little valley, I should have gotten my long- 
lost grizzly. There may be some bear hunter who has 
likewise lost a bear, and, if so, he may, perhaps, be abl" 
to get him right where I was, and get him before the 
first of July. It is very well worth while keeping in 
touch with Jack Monroe in regard to these matters. T 
would not ask a harder man to follow in the hills, on 
foot or on horseback, nor did I ever see one more un- 
failingly good-natured. He and Collins Anderson sure!}- 
put up a pretty strong bear campaign together. I hope 
that some day— but v/hat is the use of hoping? I .iun- 
pose I ought to be entirely satisfied with the big robt 
which one of these days is going to come in from the 
beloved Blackfoot country and adorn the tepee of 
Madame, the neophyte. E. Hough. 
HART70SD Building, Chicago, 111. 
Good Dbgfs Wanted* 
A NUMBER of subscribers who are preparing for the fall 
and winter sport ask where they can obtain various breeds 
of dogs. 
Two or three desire to secure good beagles ; enough for 
one or more packs. 
One wishes to know where he can find good Scottish 
terriers, Avhile one desires a bear dog. The dog dealer's 
harvest time is here. 
On New Jersey Meadows. 
Bayville, N. J., Sept. 18.— There ha^ been so much 
rain, with high tides, that there has been very little hay 
cut on the meadows, so very few bay birds stop over. 
I am afraid the snipe will be very scarce this season. 
Herb. 
"That reminds me." 
Mississippi Criticises Vermont* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Mr. J. B. Burnham, a writer of well-established ability 
in the coltxmns of Forest and Stre.im, has treated your 
readers to a very interesting narrative of the Vermont 
League outing, with his accustomed felicity of style, in 
your Sept. 14 number. I have so often heretofore read 
the contributions of Mr. Burnham in your pages with 
entire approbation and much enjoyment, that it is now 
with feelings of profound regret that I am constrained 
from a sense of duty to call attention to what appears to 
be an unwarranted exhibition of imaginative exuberance 
which occurs in the said latest contribution of Mr. Burn- 
ham. 
It was natural and proper that he should introduce » 
Tigers and Mountain Lions on the 'stage of the League's 
proceedings, in view of President Roosevelt's prominent 
connection with the affair; but. in his graphic descrip- . 
tion of the banquet on the Isle La Motte, he exceeds the 
bounds of forbearance in making "fresh-skinned country 
girls" a feature of the menu, the cannibalistic implication 
of which, even recognizing the President's well-known 
strenuous proclivities, is carrying a joke to unjustifiable 
length, and ought not to pass without rebuke. 
Mr. Burnham may plead that the skinned, girls were 
only introduced to give .additional eclat to the occasion, 
and were used solely as the bearers of chicken pie, etc.; 
but why they should have been skinned at all, a feature 
that is further emphasized by their being "fresh skinned," 
still remains for explanation. Coahoma. 
I Mississipri. ^ 
T'ro|>rietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
tliem in Forest and Stream. 
Longf Island Note* 
Patchogue, L. I., Sept. 10.' — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Is it true that wild pigeons are to be found in the eastern 
part of Long Island ? I saw a flock of ten or twelve birds 
near Shinnecock lighthouse last week, which my man 
said were passenger pigeons, and I am inclined to think 
that he knows the species perfectly. I will make further 
inquiries during the present week, and may learn some- 
thing definite upon the subject Shore birds above the 
size of ringnecks are extremely scarce, although we saw 
about a dozen lesser yellowlegs in Quonic Bay a fort- 
night ago. Black ducks have begun to fly westward in 
very srnall numbers, f. H. B. 
In New England. 
Boston^ Sept. 21. — Mr. Frank N. Ganong and a friend 
have just returned from a hunting and fishing trip to the 
Megantic preserve. To say that Mr. Ganong is disap- 
pointed hardly expresses his feelings. A busy man, it is 
hard for him to get away, and, naturally, he prizes his 
short outings, and hopes for some good results. This 
time he "struck it rough," as fishermen and hunters often 
will. They fished Spider Lake all one day, with the result 
of two little bass. The next day everybody said that they 
should visit Arnold Pond, where the trout live in thou- 
sands, and are only too anxious to be caught, two and 
three at a cast being the rule. They landed there in good 
order. They cast and cast, and then cast and cast again, 
but not a trout would rise. All day they fished, taking 
two little trout that the guide said were too small to keep. 
The next day they resolved to try for a deer. They went 
up on to the Canadian part of the preserve, where the 
open season begun Sept. i. They tramped and tramped all 
day long, but not so much as a glimpse of deer did 
they see. 
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Follett, of Newton, are both ex- 
perts with the rod. and reel, and seldom do they take up 
these implements without some good results, Mr. Louis 
B. Goodall, a manufacturer, of Sanford, Me., invited 
thein down to his place the other day to enioy the bass 
fishing. Mr. Goodall is at the head of the Maine commis- 
sion that is to arrange for a Maine exhibit at the St. Louis 
World's Fair in 1903, already referred to in the Forest 
and Stream, and it is he that is urging that Maine make 
an exhibit there of her woods and water resorts, .her 
luinting and fishing privileges and her summer outing 
facilities. He says that good progress is being made, and 
that everybody is pleased with the idea. Mrs. Follett 
caught seven beautiful bass the first afternoon, from the 
lake about the dam. The next day it rained in torrents, 
but Mr. Follett is too much of a fisherman to let that 
keep him indoors. He went out with a guide below the 
dam. With a helgramite for bait and a light rod, he would 
cast as far forward as possible and then draw the bait in 
slowly. The bass took hold finely. Mr. Follett says that 
he never had better sport in his life. In a short time he 
had fourteen handsome bass, from 2}i to 4 pounds. More 
might have been taken, but Mr. Follett gave some of them 
slack line, "just to see them shake out the hook." He is 
much pleased with Sanford for bass fishing and Mr. 
Goodall for an entertainer. Mr. Goodall has been a great 
lover of the rod all his days, and he will go to work at a 
fish and game exhibit at St. Loui^ with all the en- 
thusiasm of an expert. 
Boston, Sept. 23.— Still the late fishermen are at it. 
Considerable fitting out for the fall fishing has lately 
been done at the tackle stores, and it is plain that there 
will be no rest for the trout and landlocked salmon, par- 
ticularly in Maine waters, till Oct. i shall close the sea- 
son. At the Upper Dam a number of the old-timers are 
