True bear stories
By: by Joaquin Miller ; with introductory notes by David Starr Jordan, President of Leland Stanford, Jr., University ; together with a thrilling account of the capture of the celebrated grizzly "Monarch" ; fully illustrated
Contributors: Beringer, Pierre N., editor
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Rand, McNally & Company, publishers
Published: 1900
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Copyright date: 1900
Subjects: Bears; Juvenile literature; Bear attacks; Folklore; Bear cubs; Natural history; Courage
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: Introductory notes / David Starr Jordan; title: Bear on fire; title: Music-loving bears; title: My first grizzly; title: Twin babies; title: In swimming with a bear; title: Fat little editor and three little browns; title: Treeing a bear; title: Bill Cross and his pet bear; title: Great grizzly bear; title: As a humorist; title: Grizzly's sly little joke; title: Grizzly as Fremont found him; title: Bear with spectacle; title: Bear-slayer of San Diego; title: Alaskan and polar bear; title: Monnehan, the great bear-hunter of Oregon; title: Bear "Monarch", how he was captured; title: Scientific classification of bears / edited by Pierre N. Beringer: The Louisiana spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) ; The grizzly (Ursus horibilis or ferox) ; The polar bear (Thalassarctos maritimus) ; The cinnamon bear (Ursus cinnamoneous) ; The black bear of California (Ursus californiensis); title: Quaint Indian lore: in regard to the mystical power of the bear as a great medicine; title: Curious facts about the bear.