JUNB, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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soon as he could and either turn him back 
or kill him if he came out in the open and 
attempted to cross the ridge. So off he 
went and Nichols and I started out and 
cross-cut the gulches. Nichols said it was 
about a mile to the brushy gulch where 
they generally started him. As he had 
not been bothered lately it would be an 
easy matter to get him up, he thought. I 
told Nichols that all I asked of him was 
for him to be careful about shooting when 
the dogs were fighting him. When we 
got over on top of the ridge looking down 
into this big gulch I sent the dogs down 
and we stayed up on top of the ridge. 
They were gone for quite a while before 
we heard a bark out of them ; then I heard 
Trailer give a “bow-wow.” He had 
struck the track but it was cold, so we 
waited and listened and after a while 
we saw the dogs come out in an open 
place on the opposite side, and they were 
working like beavers, and only opening 
once in a while. We watched and pretty 
soon they went over the hill and down 
into the next canyon. 
We struck out now pretty lively 
down in the gulch and up the other side 
to where we had seen them working, and 
there was his track as plain as day. It 
was a big one; seven inches wide and 
ten inches long. I measured it. “Say, 
Nichols,” I said, “are you sure that it is 
a brown bear?” He said he had seen it 
several times and he was sure it was a 
brown bear. “That is the biggest brown 
bear track I ever saw,” I said. 
We were moving right along while we 
were talking, and soon got to the top of 
the ridge where the dogs went over, and 
we heard them the first thing. They had 
him going and were making it hot for 
him. We could tell that easy enough, for 
he was working up the canyon and mak- 
ing slow headway. We kept along the 
ridge and in a few minutes we saw Old 
Brownie come up in sight on the opposite 
side into open ground, and then Nichols 
saw how two of the right kind of dogs 
could handle a bear. First one and then 
the other would grab him by the ham, 
and kept him so busy that he couldn’t 
travel up hill at all, and they were in 
such a continual mix up that we dare not 
shoot. Nichols said he never saw any- 
thing like it, and he said also: “If they 
keep that up, we will get him sure.” I 
said: “Don’t you think for a minute we 
won’t get him, for they will never quit.” 
Pretty soon 1 1 saw Temp coming down 
the open ridge beyond him on a dead 
run. He had tied his horse and was 
•coming a-foot. Things were getting ex- 
tremely exciting now as the fight was 
raging fast and furious; Temp being 
above had the advantage and kept getting 
closer, but could not shoot on account of 
the dogs. Suddenly Old Brownie made 
a dash for the brush and got down to- 
wards the gulch; and as good luck would 
have it he commenced working along up 
toward the head of the gulch. I called 
across to Temp to keep going along and 
be ready to head him off when he reached 
the open ground. I sent Nichols up on 
the side that we were on and told him 
to get there as quickly as he could. 
Then I went right down and followed 
akmg the side hill above them, thinking 
I might get sight of him if it wasn’t too 
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