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A Colorado Bear Hunt
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| News Date | Tuesday, May 5, 2015 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In mid-April 1905, our party—consisting of Philip B. Stewart, of Colorado Springs, and Dr. Alexander Lambert, of New York, in addition to myself—left Newcastle, Colorado, for a bear hunt. As guides and hunters, we had John Goff and Jake Borah, whom there are no better men at their work of hunting bear in the mountains with hounds. Each brought his own dogs; all told, there were 26 hounds and four half-blood terriers to help worry the bear when at bay. We traveled in comfort, with a big pack train, spare horses for each of us, and a cook, packers, and horse wranglers. I carried one of the new model Springfield military rifles, a .30-40, with a soft-nosed bullet—a very accurate, hard-hitting gun.
The country was very steep and rugged; the mountainsides were greasy and slippery from the melting snow while the snow bucking through the deep drifts on their tops and on the north sides was exhausting. Only sure-footed animals could avoid serious tumbles, and only animals of great endurance could have lasted through the work. Both Johnny Goff and his partner, Brick Wells, who often accompanied us on the hunts, were frequently mounted on animals of uncertain temper, with a tendency to buck on insufficient provocation; but they rode them with entire indifference up and down any incline.
This Colorado trip was the first in which I hunted bears with hounds. If we had run across a grizzly there would doubtless have been a chance to show some prowess, at least in the way of hard riding. But the black and brown bears cannot, save under exceptional circumstances, escape from such a pack as we had with us; and the real merit of the chase was confined to the hounds and to Jake and Johnny for their skill in handling them. |
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