
about the carcass of a big bull moose 
or of a horse, have: had their hands 
full; but to see how one old bear has 
slapped and dragged such a bait about, 
as if it were a dead rabbit, is indeed a 
revelation. 
APPARENTLY deliberate and even 
awkward in their movements, they 
can, when occasion demands, 
move with lightning speed and, 
in attack, strike terrific blows 
with their forepaws by which 
they have been known to fell a 
full grown steer. 
NLIKE the black bear they 
do not, however, climb 
trees. 
Though in early days the 
grizzly was undoubtedly often 
met with well out on the plains 
where, like the wolf, he preyed 
upon the buffalo and _ other 
game, his principal range ex- 
tended throughout practically 
all of the Rockies from Mexico and 
Southern California to the Yukon and 
Alaska. Today, except perhaps in 
the Yellowstone Park and adjacent 
districts, and in some of the moun- 
tains of Idaho, he is rare in the United 
States, and the sportsman solely intent 
upon hunting the Grizzly had better 
pitch his camp in the wilder mountain- 
ous country of northwestern Alberta, 
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northern British Columbia, the Yukon 
or Alaska. 
In the matter of diet the grizzly va- 
ries greatly both in different localities 
and seasons and his bill of fare runs 
all the way from the tiny ant to the 
flesh of the largest animals either wild 
or domestic, whereas in between he re- 
gales himself upon grasses, berries, 
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Some writers of the out-of-doors are prone 
to picture the grizzly as a ferocious beast, 
under all circumstances dangerous to man. 
Others belittle his mettle and make him a 
cowardly and not to be respected quarry. 
Between these extremes lies fact, which 
Capt. Robinson brings out in an interesting 
manner in his portrayal of ursine character. 
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roots, fish, grubs, bugs, gophers, ground 
squirrels, marmots, and almost any 
swill and carrion. 
During the salmon runs in the rivers 
of the far Northwest he subsists almost 
entirely on these fish, which he deftly 
scoops, or rather slaps, out of the water 
as they crowd up the shallows; nor 
does he neglect even the dead and high 
smelling fish washed up on the banks. 

That he fares bountifully at this sea- 
son will be readily appreciated by any 
who have witnessed the thousands upon 
thousands of salmon that seem literally 
to crowd their way up these rivers dur- 
ing a “run.” 
Sore summers ago two friends 
of mine had their camp on a big 
stream in southern Alaska dur- 
ing the height of the run of 
salmon up river. 
Hiding behind some rocks and 
brush, a watch would be kept 
where several well-used trails 
led down to the water’s edge. 
On the first day, glancing up- 
stream to where a dead stump 
leaned out into the water, a 
peaceful, though hairy old Izaak 
Walton, in the form of “Ursus 
Horribilis,’ was sighted, intent 
upon his piscatorial operations. 
He must have been enjoying 
a good afternoon’s sport, for, all 
unmindful of danger, he kept 
busily at it until from some fifty yards 
away a rifle cracked and curling up 
into a big ball he rolled into the stream, 
where he expired with little or no fuss, 
having received the bullet through the 
upper part of the heart. 
RAGGING his 600 Ibs. out onto the 
dry bank for skinning was much 
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