Allen Kelly, a newspaperman who spent months in the mountains to trap a live grizzly, tells the story of Monarch, the bear he caught for San Francisco, and of other bears he met or heard about. Clubfoot, Mountain Charley and the starving grizzly mother leading her cubs down to the foothills appear, with drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton and others.
Lively natural history and campfire lore of the vanished California grizzly. Download the free EPUB.