Survival Skills of Bears

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The Beast That Walks Like Man by Harold McCracken.
George Bird Grinnell, one of the most respected authorities on the western Indians, whose knowledge of these people was founded on long and intimate personal association with them, has the following to sayin his two-volume work, 'The Cheyenne Indians': "Stories are told of man-eating grizzly bears, that habitually preyed on the people, lying in wait for and capturing them, and even driving large camps away from favorite camping places. Such stories go back to a time before the coming of the whites, for the acquisition of horses and iron-pointed arrows tended to put the Indian more nearly on an equality with his brute enemy, than he was when the red man traveled afoot and his weapons were of stone. In primitive times every advantage was with the bear. It was swift of foot, enduring, and hard to kill. Its tough muscles, heavy fur, strong hide, and thick coating of fat were hardly to be pierced by the primitive arrow. Reply