One had been partially scalped by a bear's teeth; the animal was very old and so the fangs did not enter the skull.

The other had been bitten across the face, and the wounds never entirely healed, so that his disfigured visage was hideous to behold.
Most of these accidents occur in following a wounded or worried bear into thick cover; and under such circumstances an animal apparently hopelessly disabled, or in the death throes, may with a last effort kill one or more of its assailants.

In 1874 my wife's uncle, Captain Alexander Moore, U.S.A., and my friend Captain Bates, with some men of the 2nd and 3rd Cavalry, were scouting in Wyoming, near the Freezeout Mountains.

One morning they roused a bear in the open prairie and followed it at full speed as it ran towards a small creek.

At one spot in the creek beavers had built a dam, and as usual in such places there was a thick growth of bushes and willow saplings.