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Title: Bears I Have Met--and Others

Author: Allen Kelly

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BEARS I HAVE MET--AND OTHERS

by

ALLEN KELLY

Illustrations by Ernest Thompson Seton,
W. H. Loomis, Homer Davenport, Walt. McDougall,
Charles Nelan, W. Hofacker,
Will. Chapin and the Author

Philadelphia
Drexel Biddle, Publisher

1903

[Frontispiece: Photograph of Allen Kelly]

[Illustration: Letter to Allen Kelly
from Ernest Thompson Seton.]

CONTENTS

Chapter

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

ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of the Author.

Sketch of Monarch.----ERNEST THOMPSON SETON.

The Largest Captive Grizzly.----From a Photograph.

Feasting Upon a Big Steer.----A. K.

Chained to Trees Every Night.

Prepared to Pluck Foster.----W. H. LOOMIS.

Long Brown Moved Just in Time.----W. H. LOOMIS.

The Bear Swung Trap, Chain and Clog.----W. H. L. and A. K.

She Lunged Forward to Meet the Charge.----W. HOFACKER.

A Bully Saddle Bear.----HO