True Bear Stories
Author: first_name:  Joaquin
last_name: Miller
Language: English
Year: 1900

Joaquin Miller dedicated this book to "my dear little daughter...for whose pleasure and instruction I have many times dug up the most of these stories from out the days of my boyhood." In his preface he claims to prefer true stories to made-up ones. And he always defends bears, which he thinks have gotten an undeserved bad reputation from the general populous.<br /><br />

Miller strives here to pass on a respect for the variety and wisdom in the lives of real bears. But perhaps we should offer