Joaquin Miller dedicated this book to "my dear little daughter...for whose pleasure and instruction I have many times dug up the most of these stories from out the days of my boyhood." In his preface he claims to prefer true stories to made-up ones. And he always defends bears, which he thinks have gotten an undeserved bad reputation from the general populous. Miller strives here to pass on a respect for the variety and wisdom in the lives of real bears. But perhaps we should offer one caution: throughout his life Joaquin Miller gained a reputation for being a supreme liar!

Latest episodes of the podcast True Bear Stories by Joaquin Miller

• Preface and Introductory Notes
• A Bear on Fire
• Music-Loving Bears; My First Grizzly
• Twin Babies
• In Swimming With a Bear
• A Fat Little Editor and Three Little Browns; Treeing a Bear
• Bill Cross and His Pet Bear; The Great Grizzly Bear
• As a Humorist; A Grizzly's Sly Little Joke; The Grizzly as Fremont Found Him
• The Bear With Spectacles
• The Bear Slayer of San Diego
• The Alaskan and Polar Bear
• Monnehan, the Great Bear Hunter of Oregon
• The Bear 'Monarch.' Part A
• The Bear 'Monarch.' Part B
• The Bear 'Monarch.' Part C
• Scientific Classification of Bears