| 1 | Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 17 2009-07-09 |
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| 2 | Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 16 2009-02-25 |
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| 3 | Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 15 2009-02-25 |
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| 4 | Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 14 2009-02-25 |
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| 5 | Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 13 2009-02-25 |
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| 6 | Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 12 2009-02-25 |
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| 7 | Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 11 2009-02-25 |
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| 8 | Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 10 2009-02-25 |
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| 9 | Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 9 2009-02-25 |
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| 10 | Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 8 2009-02-25 |
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MONARCH: the Big Bear of Tallac, by Ernest Thompson Seton
Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who grew to be the Monarch of the Plains -- and the Prisoner of humanity's arrogance. "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 told of the river at our feet: of its rise, a thread-like rill, afar on Tallac's side, and its growth--a brook, a stream, a little river, a river, a mighty flood that rolled and ran from hills to plain to meet a final doom so strange that only the wise believe. ... reverencing the indomitable spirit of the mountaineer, worshiping the mighty Beast that nature built a monument of power, and loving and worshiping the clash, the awful strife heroic, at the close, when these two met." - Ernest Thompson Seton
