MAN MEETS GRIZZLY : ENCOUNTERS IN THE WILD FROM LEWIS AND CLARK TO MODERN TIMES; (Foreword by Frank C. Craighead, Jr.)

Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Brick red textured cloth. Slight depression to spine. Structurally very sound. Previous owner's printed name to front free endpaper. 298 pp.

After an introduction to the nature and habits of the Grizzly, stories include (but are not limited to):
"The Grizzly as Lewis and Clark Found Him; "Saved by Three Grizzled Bears"; "Kidnaped by a Bear";
"Fear of Grizzlies. in Early Days" (Washington Irving); "Adventures with a White Bear"; Grizzlies on the Missouri; "John Glass and the Grizzly"; "A Grizzly vs. California Bulls"; "Hand-to-Hand Fight with a Grizzly; "A Fierce Battle with a Grizzly"; "A Fracas with Grizzly Bears"; "The Bull Moose and the Kodiak Bear"; "Jim Parker's Fight"; "The Grizzly of the Idaho Woods"; "Nat Straw, the Last of the Grizzly Hunters"; "The Grizzly Mother"; "History of Old Bruno"; "Old Three Toes of Monroe Mountain"; "Trapping a Grizzly", and more. Stories of unexpected encounters with the grizzly, spanning the entire period of the (White)-settled west.
The stories were gathered from "books on exploration and hunting, early periodicals, journals and diaries, and from previously unpublished recollections..." (DJ flap). Previous owner's printed name to front free endpaper.