Transcriber’s Note: This notation has not been reproduced in this e-text. The first number refers to the page, the second to the line. However, as the original pages and lines have not been preserved in this text version, you will need to search for words or phrases (or use the HTML version, in which links are provided to each phrase). exaggerated appreciation, 1, 7 attentively scrutinized, 2, 11 in his wake, 2, 17 issued on the prairie, 2, 20 gashed with numberless ravines, 2, 24 doubly wild, 2, 27 to windward, 2, 30 Indian file, 3, 1 worming his way, 3, 8 science of a connoisseur, 3, 30 overcame his scruples, 3, 35 more eligible portions, 3, 35 in the teeth of the sleet, 4, 5 collapsed in proportion, 4, 15 transatlantic sources, 4, 34 an unbounded aversion, 5, 3 to “run” a buffalo, 5, 4 I shall “approach,” 5, 29 staggered at the suggestion, 5, 32 characteristic indecision, 5, 32 _bourgeois_ of Fort Laramie, 6, 9 rawboned proportions, 6, 26 assimilating themselves, 6, 35 involved in the shallows, 7, 8 disproportioned and appalling, 7, 19 breasting the hill, 7, 20 hold the middle guard, 7, 31 reaped the fruits, 8, 4 precious plan, 8, 4 wholesome law of the prairie, 8, 9 such an apprehension, 9, 3 drew our saddle-girths, 9, 14 laboring with a weary gallop, 10, 28 dint of much effort, 10, 31 high time, 11, 7 supplicating attitude, 12, 15 rightful inhabitants, 12, 21 vast congregation, 12, 26 OLD EPHRAIM, THE GRIZZLY BEAR THEODORE ROOSEVELT VARIETIES OF BEAR The king of the game beasts of temperate North America, because the most dangerous to the hunter, is the grizzly bear; known to the few remaining old-time trappers of the Rockies and the Great Plains, sometimes as “Old Ephraim” and sometimes as “Moccasin Joe”—the last in allusion to his queer, half-human footprints, which look as if made by some misshapen giant, walking in moccasins.