BEAR ABTEHTOEE III TELIOWSTONE PARK - 187B 
I had a curious little bear experience in the Gallatin Range 
, V 
when with the first Hayden expedition* As 1 rode along I saw 
much small game and frequently tracks of mountain lions, hear, 
deer and elk* I was forging ahead alone on my tired little 
pony, when suddenly I saw a large hlack object just ahead. I 
thought at first it was a horse, hut finally made it out to he a 
large hlack hear rooting in the snow. I was armed with a pistol 
only, and, deciding that discretion was the better part of valor, 
turned about and heat a hasty and perhaps undignified retreat. 
After returning to camp I secured reenforcements and returned to 
seek his bearship, who of course had gone his way. Examining 
the tracks made in the snow, I found that at the very moment I 
had started in one direction the hear had started in the other, 
and with such remarkable impetuosity as to clear ten or more feet 
at a jump, while my tired pony hardly cleared more than a yard. 
My chances of escape would have been very slight indeed had he 
decided to come my way. We followed his trail and came upon 
him in a deep ravine, where he was finally killed and the skin 
carried to camp in triumph. 
1929 
It was not long after this that I found out that the hears 
of the Park were as a rule not vicious, indeed inclined to he 
friendly with visitors. Today, 57 years later, they have become 
accustomed to visitors who infest the Park by tens of thousands. 
They are almost domesticated. 
