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True bear stories / 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.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bears--Juvenile literature.
- Bears.
- Bear attacks--Juvenile literature.
- Bear attacks.
- Bears--Folklore.
- Bear cubs--Juvenile literature.
- Bear cubs.
- Natural history--Juvenile literature.
- Natural history.
- Courage--Juvenile literature.
- Courage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color), portrait.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Rand, McNally and Company, publishers, [1900]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introductory notes / David Starr Jordan
- Bear on fire
- Music-loving bears
- My first grizzly
- Twin babies
- In swimming with a bear
- Fat little editor and three little browns
- Treeing a bear
- Bill Cross and his pet bear
- Great grizzly bear
- As a humorist
- Grizzly's sly little joke
- Grizzly as Fremont found him
- Bear with spectacle
- Bear-slayer of San Diego
- Alaskan and polar bear
- Monnehan, the great bear-hunter of Oregon
- Bear "Monarch", how he was captured
- 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)
- Quaint Indian lore: in regard to the mystical power of the bear as a great medicine
- Curious facts about the bear.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 301343160
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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