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Title: Rocky Mountain life; or, Startling scenes and perilous adventures in the far West, during an expedition of three years
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Sage, Rufus B., 1817-1893
Subjects: Hunting -- United States Rocky Mountains West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Wentworth and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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led, andthen he will quail and tremble in every joint, from extreme terror. In short, the grizzly bear stalks forth at pleasure, in his majesty andstrength, lord of the wild solitudes in which he dwells, and none dares op-pose him. Some writers assert that bears will not prey upon dead carcases,—thisis contrary to fact. I have often known them take possession of thecarcases of animals, even when nearly putrid, and remain until they weredevoured. They frequently kill buffalo, horses, and cattle to gratify their taste foranimal food, and, in such cases, always drag their prey to some convenientspot, and perform the task of burial by heaping upon it piles of rock orearth, to a depth of several feet, for protection against the voracity of otherbeasts of prey. It is not uncommon, even, that they drag the entire carcaseof a full-grown bull a distance of several hundred yards, by the horns, forthis purpose,—so great is their strength and so accute their sagacity. H t-H N N k! WH>Pi en
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Ti ■-» O -^■» J > > ^ i 4 t «« J > J > 159 CHAPTER XIV. Desperate encounter with a grizzly bear, and extraordinary instance of suffering.—Close contest.—A comical incident.—Cross Platte.—Canon camp.—Sage trees.—Mountain sheep, and all about them.—Independence Rock; why so called, anddescription of it.—Devils Gate.—Landscape scenery. The adventure recorded in the preceding chapter called forth the re-hearsal of many thrilling stories of frightful encounter with that proudmonarch of the mountains, the grizzly bear. Two or three of these it maynot be uninteresting to transcribe. Several years since, an old trapper by the name of Glass, with his companion, while on an excursion, came upon a large grizzly bear. Bruin, having received the salute of two rifles, as usual, rushed towardshis uncivil assailants, who broke from him with all possible despatch. ButGlass, stumbling, fell prostrate in his flight, and before he could recover hisfeet the infuriated

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