The Grizzly Bear: The Narrative of a Hunter-naturalist, Historical, Scientific and Adventurous

From inside the book:THE object of this book is to place on record the facts I have gleaned, and the deductions I have drawn, from some twenty-five years of more or less constant observation of the grizzly bear. This is an animal much talked about, but little studied. It is now well on its way toward extinction. Our acquaintance with its life history is broken by many gaps and supplemented by many conjectures. Some of these gaps I believe myself able to fill; some of these conjectures I propose to examine and discuss. Before, therefore, venturing even tentatively to take the chair as a witness, I find it only right that I should, in so far as I am entitled to do so, qualify as an expert. This book published in 1909 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting. ContentsI. Autobiographical II. Early History — Lewis and Clark III. Followers of Lewis and Clark . IV. James Capen Adams V. The Scientific Classification of Bears PART II MY EXPERIENCES AND ADVENTURES VI. My First Grizzly VII. Five in Five Shots VIII. Grizzly Gourmets IX. Trailing X. A Charging Grizzly XI. At Close Quarters XII. My First Trip to the Selkirks XIII. The Selkirks Revisited XIV. The Unexpected XV. A Spring Gun Avoided XVI. A Photographic Expedition XVII. Flashlighting Grizzlies PART III CHARACTER AND HABITS OF THE GRIZZLY XVIII. Description and Distribution XIX. Characteristics and Habits XX. Food and Feeding XXI. His Fierceness XXII. His Vitality XXIII. Fact versus Fiction XXIV. Conclusion