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

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[They all Rushed Under it like a Lot of Little Pigs]14
[Like Children Playing "Hands"]18
[He Stayed in the Tree till near Morning]32
[A Savage Bobcat ... Warned Him to go Back]44
[Wahb Yelled and Jerked Back]50
[He Struck one Fearful, Crushing Blow]74
[Ain't He an Awful Size, Though?]90
[Wahb Smashed His Skull]102
[Causing the Pool to Overflow]113
[He Deliberately Stood up on the Pine Root]142
[The Roachback Fled into the Woods]150
[He Paused a Moment at the Gate]165

PART I
THE CUBHOOD OF WAHB