Biography of a Grizzly, The

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1>THE BIOGRAPHY OF A GRIZZLY</h1> <p class="title">by</p> <p class="title big">ERNEST THOMPSON SETON</p> <p style="margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 30%; margin-top: 6em; margin-bottom: 3em"> 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.</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG class="plain" src="images/i003.png" width-obs="400" height-obs="236" alt="" title="" /></div> <hr /> <div class="figright"> <ANTIMG class="plain" src="images/page005.png" width-obs="40" height-obs="120" alt="" title="" /></div> <p class="center">THE GRIZZLY</p> <p>NEARLY half a century has gone since I lived among these scenes and made my observations on the grand Old Bear of the Mountains.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p class="right" style="margin-right: 25%"><span class="smcap">Ernest Thompson Seton</span></p> <div class="figright"> <ANTIMG class="plain" src="images/page007.png" width-obs="40" height-obs="120" alt="" title="" /></div> <p class="center" style="margin-top: 3em">LIST OF FULL-PAGE DRAWINGS</p> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" summary="Illustrations"> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td class="smcap" align="right" style="font-size: small">page</td> </tr> <tr> <td><SPAN href="#image01">They all Rushed Under it like a Lot of Little Pigs</SPAN></td> <td align="right">14</td> </tr> <tr> <td><SPAN href="#image02">Like Children Playing "Hands"</SPAN></td> <td align="right">18</td> </tr> <tr> <td><SPAN href="#image03">He Stayed in the Tree till near Morning</SPAN></td> <td align="right">32</td> </tr> <tr> <td><SPAN href="#image04">A Savage Bobcat ... Warned Him to go Back</SPAN></td> <td align="right">44</td> </tr> <tr> <td><SPAN href="#image05">Wahb Yelled and Jerked Back</SPAN></td> <td align="right">50</td> </tr> <tr> <td><SPAN href="#image06">He Struck one Fearful, Crushing Blow</SPAN></td> <td align="right">74</td> </tr> <tr> <td><SPAN href="#image07">Ain't He an Awful Size, Though?</SPAN></td> <td align="right">90</td> </tr> <tr> <td><SPAN href="#image08">Wahb Smashed His Skull</SPAN></td> <td align="right">102</td> </tr> <tr> <td><SPAN href="#image09">Causing the Pool to Overflow</SPAN></td> <td align="right">113</td> </tr> <tr> <td><SPAN href="#image10">He Deliberately Stood up on the Pine Root</SPAN></td> <td align="right">142</td> </tr> <tr> <td><SPAN href="#image11">The Roachback Fled into the Woods</SPAN></td> <td align="right">150</td> </tr> <tr> <td><SPAN href="#image12">He Paused a Moment at the Gate</SPAN></td> <td align="right">165</td> </tr> </table> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />