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Updated: June 13, 2025
"By Jove, that's it. What does it mean?" asked Joe, who was not a scholar. "The Wind of Death." "That's English, but I can't apply it here. Can you?" "No doubt it is some Indian omen." The hurried consultation over, Silvertip tied Joe's horse and dog to the trees, and once more led the way; this time he avoided the open forest and kept on low ground.
But the next morning all were on hand again at sun-up, for every one wanted to hear about Buster Bear's big cousins. "Way out in the mountains of the Far West, where Whistler the Marmot and Little Chief the Pika live, is a big cousin of Buster Bear," began Old Mother Nature. "He is Silvertip the Grizzly Bear, and in the past no animal in all this great country was so feared by man, as he.
Jack did not do justice to the supper; excitement had robbed him of appetite. He told Mescal how he had crept upon the coyotes, how so many had eluded him, how he had missed a gray wolf. He plied her with questions about the sheep, and wanted to know if there would be more wolves, and if she thought the "silvertip" would come. He was quite carried away by the events of the day.
But times have changed, and Silvertip has been so hunted with terrible guns that he has learned to fear man quite as much as Buster does. "He is larger than Buster and possessed of tremendous strength. Instead of a black coat, he has a coat which varies from yellowish- brown to almost black.
Once there, in sight of his comrades, his action and expression changed. "Hosses all thar, Jim?" asked Anson, as he picked up, his cards. "Shore. They act awful queer, them hosses," replied. Wilson. "They're afraid of somethin'." "A-huh! Silvertip mebbe," muttered Anson. "Jim, You jest keep watch of them hosses. We'd be done if some tarnal varmint stampeded them."
"What are a cougar and a silvertip?" "Cougar means mountain-lion or panther, an' a silvertip is a grizzly bear." "Oh, they're all cruel!" exclaimed Helen, shrinking. "I reckon. Often I've shot wolves for relayin' a deer." "What's that?" "Sometimes two or more wolves will run a deer, an' while one of them rests the other will drive the deer around to his pardner, who'll, take up the chase.
"Shawnee ketch'um?" asked the Indian, in his fairly intelligible English. Joe nodded his head, while Colonel Zane spoke once more in Shawnee, explaining the cause of Silvertip's emnity. "Shawnee chief one bad Injun," replied Tome, seriously. "Silvertip mad thunder-mad. Ketch'um paleface scalp'um sure."
The resemblance ceased here, for even a cornered wolf will show his teeth, and Girty, driven to bay, would have cringed and cowered. Even now at the mention of Wetzel's enmity he trembled. "I'll shet yer wind," he cried, catching up his tomahawk and making for Joe. Silvertip intervened, and prevented the assault.
Silvertip knows every inch of that part of the country in which he lives and always picks out the best way of getting from one place to another. He is one of the finest animals in this country, and it is a matter for sadness that his splendid race will soon come to an end unless man makes laws to protect him from the hunters. In very many places where he used to be found he lives no longer.
The warriors closed in around the brothers; two grasping each by the arms, and the remaining Indian taking care of the horse. The captives were then led ashore, where Silvertip awaited them.
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