This is a grizzly country.

If we hurry you can get a look at him through the telescope." MacDonald was already studying the object through his long glass when they joined him.
"It's a bear," he said.
"Please--please let me look at him," begged Joanne.
The dark object was now almost on the skyline.

Half A minute more and it would pass over and out of sight.

MacDonald still held his eye to the telescope, as though he had not heard Joanne.

Not until the moving object had crossed the skyline, and had disappeared, did he reply to her.
"The light's bad, an' you couldn't have made him out very well," he said.
"We'll show you plenty o' grizzlies, an' so near you won't want a telescope.