Book of a Hundred Bears: a Tale of Yellowstone Park

I had nearly forgotten that I had this book until a challenge came up and I started looking for it. The book bears...no pun intended... the year of publication as 1909 and says that it's the 3rd reprint...so who knows when it was first released. My grandmother received the book from her mother when her family learned that she was leaving Ireland to come to America in 1926, but it had been in her family for 16 or 17 years before that...so I suspect that it was purchased new around 1910 or 1911 when she would have been 7 or 8 years old. She brought more books with her than clothes and my grandfather build her library shelves to house her treasured reads. Besides myself she had another granddaughter that loved to read and we read every show more book on the shelf including this one. I inherited this one along with a another..."The Wind In The Rosebush"... that my cousin and I nearly read the cover off of. This book painted a vivid picture of the American west and it's wildlife featuring mostly stories from Yellowstone National Park and every one has a species of bear ranging from black bears to grizzles. The author is a little confused as he thinks that bears would make good pets...but other than that the stories have survived over a hundred years. A good trip down memory lane. show less