Front matter
Reading edition · Edition 2
Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent spelling used in the original has been retained.
THE BIOGRAPHY OF A GRIZZLY
by
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
Author of The Trail of the Sandhill Stag Wild Animals I Have Known Art Anatomy of Animals Mammals of Manitoba Birds of Manitoba Lives of Game Animals The Gospel of the Redman The Buffalo Wind
Published by D. Appleton-Century Company, New York
Copyright, 1899, 1900, by The Century Co. Copyright, 1900, by Ernest Seton-Thompson.
Copyright Renewed, 1927 by Ernest Thompson Seton
All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission of the publisher.
Printed in the U. S. A.
This book is dedicated to the memory of days spent in Wind River Mountains and on the Graybull, where from hunter, miner, and personal experience I gathered many chapters of the History of Wahb.
THE GRIZZLY
NEARLY half a century has gone since I lived among these scenes and made my observations on the grand Old Bear of the Mountains.
Many new conditions have in that time developed, have changed the course of history. But the biggest, saddest change of all is that the Grizzly Bear, the most magnificent, dignified, and powerful beast of the wild, heroic West, is gone.
There may be a few individuals about Yellowstone Park or other great havens, but the Grizzly Bear as the wide-wandering monarch of the hills has gone the way of the Dodo.
It is just possible that in this last and latest time a newborn strong and growing sentiment will come to the rescue, will prompt us to seek out and preserve the last remnant, just as long-belated appreciation came at final stance to save for later generations the Great Sequoia Tree, when man's blind avarice had all but wiped it out. Good men are now at work with better thoughts, and reverence for the masterpieces, the giants of creation's world. It may be that this newer thought may come in force and save the grand old Bear while yet it curbs his power for harm. This is my hope and prayer; this is the sentiment unwritten, but expressed, in my Story of the Grizzly.
Ernest Thompson Seton
LIST OF FULL-PAGE DRAWINGS
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They all Rushed Under it like a Lot of Little Pigs 14
Like Children Playing "Hands" 18
He Stayed in the Tree till near Morning 32
A Savage Bobcat ... Warned Him to go Back 44
Wahb Yelled and Jerked Back 50
He Struck one Fearful, Crushing Blow 74
Ain't He an Awful Size, Though? 90
Wahb Smashed His Skull 102
Causing the Pool to Overflow 113
He Deliberately Stood up on the Pine Root 142
The Roachback Fled into the Woods 150
He Paused a Moment at the Gate 165