Acknowledgments

Introduction

About the authors

With the map makers: The journey of Henry Kelsey, 1691-92 / Henry Kelsey -- Lewis and Clark meet the white bear / Meriwether Lewis -- Notes pertaining to bears / David Thompson -- The Philadelphia bear cubs / John Davidson Godman --

Fur trappers and mountain men: Adventures of William Cannon and John Day with grizzly bears / Washington Irving -- A wounded bear / Alexander Ross -- Joe Meek's adventures with the grizzlies / Frances Fuller Victor -- Kit Carson's stirring adventures with two grizzly bears / Edward S. Ellis -- The sage [sic] [saga] of Huge Glass / George Frederick Augustus Ruxton --

California grizzlies: Early California reminiscences / John Bidwell -- Of bears in the Nipomo Hills / Rocky Dana and Marie Harrington -- Taming a grizzly / Horace Bell -- Bull-and-bear fights, I / Horace Bell -- Bull-and-bear fights, II / J.D. Borthwick --

Some pet grizzly cubs: Lady Washington / Theodore H. Hittell -- Baby Sylvester / Bret Harte --

Grizzly hunters of the old West: Hunting in the West / Theodore Roosevelt -- Grizzly bear / Richard Irving Dodge -- Varmints and such / Courtney Ryley Cooper -- Bugle and trailer in a battle royal / John B. Griffith --

With the naturalists: Among the animals of Yosemite / John Muir -- Roosevelt, rancher-naturalist / Theodore Roosevelt -- Characteristics and habits of a grizzly / William H. Wright -- Fact versus fiction / William H. Wright -- Trailing without a gun / Enos Abija Mills -- The biography of a grizzly / Ernest Thompson Seton -- My grizzly bear day / William T. Hornaday --

Cattlemen and bear hunters: Arizona bear fights / Joseph Miller -- The killing of Old Ephraim / Frank Clark -- Lepley's bear / Charles M. Russell -- Chasing and catching the rainbow / Montague Stevens -- The Fighting Silvertip of Albemarle / Frank C. Hibben -- Arizona grizzlies / Gaston Burridge --

Los osos Mexicanos: The Ben Lilly legend / J. Frank Dobie -- Juan Oso: bear nights in Mexico / J. Frank Dobie --

The big bears of Alaska: The Alaskan grizzly / Harold McCracken -- The feast of Ivan / Harold McCracken -- The bear who wanted in / Martha Martin --

Grizzlies in folklore and legend: A grizzly's shy little joke / Joaquin Miller -- Begging the bear's pardon / Charles Fletcher Lummis -- Skinning a bear; The tame bear; A bear for work / Author unknown -- Peeping Tom / Beth Day -- Coyote and grizzly / Katharine Berry Judson -- Why the Tlingits use the grizzly bear crest / Katharine Berry Judson --

Yellowstone Park grizzly bears: The hungry grizzlies of Yellowstone Park / M.P. Skinner

Special incident report / E.L. Robinson.