Bears I Have Met - and Others

"After some years of peaceful slumber, Mr. Kelly's most excellent book of bear stories was roused to life by a recent criticism of Mr. Seton, the question being where Mr. Seton got his material for his bear stories, for a number of people suggested that it was taken from Mr. Kelly's book. With the merits of this controversy, 'ourselves have naught to do,' but the matter in Mr. Kelly's book is excellent." -Forest and Stream, Volume 67, July 7, 1906

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"After some years of peaceful slumber, Mr. Kelly's most excellent book of bear stories was roused to life by a recent criticism of Mr. Seton, the question being where Mr. Seton got his material for his bear stories, for a number of people suggested that it was taken from Mr. Kelly's book. With the merits of this controversy, 'ourselves have naught to do,' but the matter in Mr. Kelly's book is excellent." -Forest and Stream, Volume 67, July 7, 1906

These bear stories were accumulated and written during a quarter of a century of intermittent wanderings and hunting on the Pacific Slope, and are here printed in a book because they may serve to entertain and amuse. Most of them are true, and the others--well, every hunter and fisherman has a certain weakness, which is harmless, readily detected and sympathetically tolerated by others of the guild. The reader will not be deceived by the whimsical romances of the bear-slayers, and he may rest assured that these tales illustrate many traits of the bear and at least one trait of the men who hunt him.

I. The California Grizzly

II. The Story of Monarch

III. Chronicles of Clubfoot

IV. Mountain Charley

V. In the Valley of the Shadow

VI. When Grizzlies Ran in Droves

VII. The Adventures of Pike

VIII. In the Big Snow

IX. Boston's Big Bear Fight

X. Yosemite

XI. The Right of Way

XII. Well Heeled

XIII. Smoked Out

XIV. A Cry in the Night

XV. A Campfire Symposium

XVI. Brainy Bears of the Pecos

XVII. When Monarch was Free

XVIII. How Old Pinto Died

XIX. Three in a Boat

XX. A Providential Prospect Hole

XXI. Killed with a Bowie

XXII. A Denful of Grizzlies