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Title: American big-game hunting: the book of the Boone and Crockett club;
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938 Boone and Crockett Club
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York : Forest and stream publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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wthe foot-hills, and in the Bad Lands, or wher-ever chokeberries, plums, bulberries, etc., arefound. In the fall he craves animal food, andis then found high up in the foot-hills, oragain on the mountain plateaus, wherevergame is most abundant; and in Novemberand December he seeks his winter quarters.These remarks do not apply to grizzly bearsthat are found in the Bad Lands borderingthe Missouri or the Lower Yellowstone, asthey live there the entire year, holing upin winter in the bluffs of those desolate-look-ing regions. The intellect and intelligence of the grizzlybear are not fully appreciated. Strip himof his hide, stand him erect on his hind feet,stick a plug hat on his upper end, and heresembles in anatomy and general appear-ance that noblest work of God—man: alittle too long-bodied, neck a little short, butotherwise, looking at the muscles of histhighs and forearm, a veritable athlete. Re-clothe him in his fur, place him on his allfours, watch him rooting around for grubs214
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aiiniijlLdiJL!:^ ..■1 Prospecting for Grub. From Scribners Magazine. Nights with the Grizzlies and worms and carrion, and wallowing inmud and filth, and he resembles in apparentstupidity and habits the lowest type of animal—the hog. Yet those well acquainted with hischaracteristics will, I think, agree with methat in intelligence and perhaps even in in-tellect he is not many grades in the processof evolution below man. About the middle of July, 1885, wordreached me that there was considerable signof bear rooting on some high mountainplateaus not many days travel by pack-trainfrom my ranch. Taking a pack outfit, in-cluding my fur-lined sleeping-bag, a goodmountain man, and a lad of fifteen to takecare of camp and the horses, and enoughgrub for a few days, we reached the locality,after a hard climb, about noon on the i8thof July. We made camp at about 8500 feetelevation on the head of one of the forksof Four Bear Creek, having to pack wood upfrom below for making coffee. We struck o

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