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Title: The Biography of a Grizzly

Author: Ernest Thompson Seton

Illustrator: Ernest Thompson Seton

Release Date: April 8, 2008 [EBook #25023]

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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

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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._

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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.

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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 lat