MONARCH, The BIG BEAR of Tallac

With 100 Drawings

by Ernest Thompson Seton

Author of
Wild Animals I have known
Trail of the Sandhill Stag
Biography of a Grizzly
Lives of the Hunted.
Two Little Savages. Etc.

1919






THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

To the memory of the days in Tallac's Pines, where by the fire I heard
this epic tale.

Kind memory calls the picture up before me now, clear, living clear: I
see them as they sat, the one small and slight, the other tall and
brawny, leader and led, rough men of the hills. They told me this
tale--in broken bits they gave it, a sentence at a time. They were
ready to talk but knew not how. Few their words, and those they used