Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"And when my father was a young man, somewhere up north of
Sacramento, in a creek called Cache Slough, the tules was full of
grizzliest He used to go in an' shoot 'em. An' when they caught
'em in the open, he an' the Mexicans used to ride up an' rope
them--catch them with lariats, you know. He said a horse that
wasn't afraid of grizzlies fetched ten times as much as any other
horse An' panthers!--all the old folks called 'em painters an'
catamounts an' varmints. Yes, we'll go to Santa Rosa some time.
Maybe we won't like that land down the coast, an' have to keep on
hikin'."