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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The original novel that was the basis for the movie with line drawing illustrations. Wonderfully told nature story about a grizzly bear, her two cubs and the hardships of living in the wild. Ages 10 and up, worth re-reading many times.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A very unexpected pleasure. Not too maudlin like some stories or too sad like others. Just a lovely little tale of an orphaned grizzly and his life.
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Title: The Biography of a Grizzly
Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
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Release Date: April 8, 2008 [EBook #25023]
Language: English
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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
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.
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.
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 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.
Ernest Thompson Seton
LIST OF FULL-PAGE DRAWINGS
PART I
THE CUBHOOD OF WAHB
I
e was born over a score of years ago, away up in the wildest part of the wild West, on the head of the Little Piney, above where the Palette Ranch is now.
His Mother was just an ordinary Silvertip, living the quiet life that all Bears prefer, minding her own business and doing her duty by her family, asking no favors of any one excepting to let her alone.
It was July before she took her remarkable family down the Little Piney to the Graybull, and showed them what strawberries were, and where to find them.
Notwithstanding their Mother's deep conviction, the cubs were not remarkably big or bright; yet they were a remarkable family, for there were four of them, and it is not often a Grizzly Mother can boast of more than two.
The woolly-coated little creatures were having a fine time, and reveled in the lovely mountain summer and the abundance of good things. Their Mother turned over each log and flat stone they came to, and the moment it was lifted they all rushed under it like a lot of little pigs to lick up the ants and grubs there hidden.
THEY ALL RUSHED UNDER IT LIKE A LOT OF LITTLE PIGS.
It never once occurred to them that Mammy's strength might fail sometime, and let the great rock drop just as they got under it; nor would any one have thought so that might have chanced to see that huge arm and that shoulder sliding about under the great yellow robe she wore. No, no; that arm could never fail. The little ones were quite right. So they