COWBOY’S LONG CRAWL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 85, 14 August 1913, Page 7

COWBOY’S LONG CRAWL.

BACKWARDS FOR A MILE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Vancouver, August G. Bob Slade, a cowboy, of Meeker, Colorado, has had an experience sufficient to turn his hair grey. Slade was riding through the woods, when a huge grizzly bear suddenly appeared in the track, and the horse was so frightened that it turned a complete somersault, threw its rider, and bolted back to camp. The fall prevented the.cowboy from boiling up a tree, and he adopted a daring expedient. Facing the bear, who was advancing towards him, he crawled backwards on his hands and knoos. For more ban a mile ho kept this up, until the skin was torn from the palms of his hands and his knees wore painfully sore. "When he was almost at the point of collapse a bullet brought down the bear, who was then within a couple of feet of the agonised man. The return of the riderless horse had brought a search party.