But Pedro's Grizzly was the most marvelous.

The grizzly was then the burly lord of the Western prairie, dreaded by all other game, and usually shunned even by the Indians.

Bears, as well as deer, adapt themselves to the exigencies of the situation; the grizzly, since the white man stole from him and the Indian the whole face of the earth, has become a night-ranging instead of a diurnal creature.

There wasn't one of them books that didn't say the grizzly wasn't the fiercest, man-eatingest cuss alive.

"Our grizzly is a meat-eater.

"An' a meat-killin' grizzly is the worst animal on the face of the earth when it comes to a fight or a hunt.

The other Grizzly was a Bear of ordinary size and ate a sheep each night, but the new one, into whose range he had entered, was a monster, a Bear mountain, requiring forty or fifty sheep to a meal.

Here one may expect to find black bear, brown bear, goats, and on almost all of the islands along the coast great numbers of the small Sitka deer, while grizzlies may these are the black, the grizzly, and the glacier or blue bear.

The bears are the working people of the show, and the big grizzlies are the walking delegates who control the amalgamated association of working bears, and the occupants of the other cages have got to cater to Uncle Ephraim, the walking delegate, or be placed on the unfair list and slugged.

All grizzlies are not killers of big game.