Identifier: cu31924096989235 (find matches)
Title: The Roosevelt book; selections from the writings of Theodore Roosevelt
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Presidents
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h long foreclaws.These very large bears with short claws are veryreluctant to climb a tree; and are almost asclumsy about it as is a young grisly. Amongthe grislies the fur varies much in color andtexture even among bears of the same locality;it is of course richest in the deep forest, whilethe bears of the dry plains and mountains areof a lighter, more washed-out hue. A full-grown grisly will usually weigh fromfive to seven hundred pounds; but exceptionalindividuals undoubtedly reach more thantwelve hundredweight. The California bearsare said to be much the largest. This I think isso, but I cannot say it with certainty—at anyrate, I have examined several skins of full-grownCalifornian bears which were no larger thanthose of many I have seen from the northernRockies. The Alaskan bears, particularlythose of the peninsula, are even bigger beasts;the skin of one which I saw in the possession ofMr. Webster, the taxidermist, was a good deallarger than the average polar bear skin; and the
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A GRISLY BEAR IN THE WILDS OF WYOMING.From a stereograph, copjaight, 1904, by Underwood and Underwood, New York. Old Epliraim, the Grisly Bear i^^ animal when alive, if in good condition, couldhardly have weighed less than 1,400 pounds.Bears vary wonderfully in weight, even to theextent of becoming half as heavy again, accord-ing as they are fat or lean; in this respect theyare more like hogs than like any other animals. The grisly is now chiefly a beast of the highhills and heavy timber; but this is merely be-cause he has learned that he must rely on coverto guard him from man, and has forsaken theopen ground accordingly. In old days, and inone or two very out-of-the-way places almost tothe present time, he wandered at will over theplains. It is only the weariness born of fearwhich nowadays causes him to cling to the thickbrush of the large river bottoms throughout theplains country. When there were no rifle-bear-ing hunters in the land, to harass him and makehim afraid, he roved hit

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