The Black Bear

The Black Bear

My story of Ben starts on the 22d of June, 1890. Bens own story had begun some four or five months earlier, in the den where his mother, who was a Black Bear, had spent the winter; but although I came to know Ben rather intimately later on, he never spoke of his early childhood to me and I never asked him about it. So well take that part for granted. Early in May of that year three of us, Martin Spencer, Jack OBrien, and myself, had set out from Spokane, Washington, to hunt grizzlies and prospect for gold in the rugged and, at that time, largely unexplored Bitter Root Mountains, in Idaho. We had a small pack train and a large stock of enthusiasm, and we arrived at the foothills with both in good condition. But although it was well past the middle of the month when we reached the mountains, we soon found ourselves floundering in snow-drifts that increased in depth as we climbed, and when, for several days on end, we had cut our way with a two-handed saw through fallen trees that barred our progress and had dug the saddle and pack horses out of pot holes in the snow into which a misstep or an act of deliberate stupidity had sent them rolling, both men and horses had become exhausted. And so, when a cold storm had added itself to our other troubles, we had pitched camp in a little opening facing the south and settled down to wait for better days. And we had waited there three solid weeks. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 57642
Author: Wright, William H. (William Henry)
Release Date: Aug 6, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Kerfoot, J. B. (John Barrett), 1865-1927