American bears
Subtitle: selections from the writings of Theodore Roosevelt
By: edited and with an introduction by Paul Schullery ; foreword by John A. Gable
Edition: Authors Guild Backinprint.com ed.
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781469746876
Subjects: Bears; Anecdotes
Description: "Theodore Roosevelt's extraordinary bear stories, assembled in a book for the first time by naturalist-historian Paul Schullery, are rich in the colorful folklore, remarkable natural history, and unforgettable adventure of exploring the world of North American bears. Through remembered today as a war hero, a trust-busting U.S. President, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Roosevelt was also one of the leading wildlife authorities of his day. His bear writings amouted to the foremost contribution to American bear literture by any writer up to his time." --Back cover.
Notes: Originally published by Roberts Rinehart Publishers.

Includes index.

Bound in publisher's illustrated orange paper covers; in prefab, 28 cm.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / John A. Gable; title: Introduction; title: A note on the selections; title: The black bear (1893); title: Old Ephraim, the grizzly bear (1893); title: The bear's disposition (1897); title: A cattle-killing bear (1907); title: A black bear hunt in the Selkirks (1893); title: Old Ephraim (1885); title: Hunting the grizzly (1893); title: A man-killing bear (1893); title: A mysterious enemy (1893); title: Bears in the Yellowstone (1905); title: A Colorado bear hunt (1905); title: In the Louisiana canebreaks (1908); title: Appensix: Predation on and by bears (passages from other writings); title: Notes to introduction; title: Index.