The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

Note 103 — Chapter III · Concluding the Route to the Great Salt Lake City. (continued 2)

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Some authorities doubt that the European brown bear is found in America.

[104] The wolverine (Gulo luscus), carcajou, or glutton, extends throughout Utah Territory: its carnivorous propensities render it an object of peculiar hatred to fur-hunters. The first name is loosely used in the States: the people of Michigan are called Wolverines, from the large number of mischievous prairie wolves found there (Bartlett).

[105] This old North of England word is used in the West for a heap of green bush or other damp combustibles, placed inside or to windward of a house or tent, and partially lighted, so as to produce a thick, pungent steam.

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