MONARCH: the Big Bear of Tallac, by Ernest Thompson Seton

By: Ernest Thompson Seton
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  • Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who grew to be the Monarch of the Plains -- and the Prisoner of humanity's arrogance. "Kind memory calls the picture up before me now, clear, living clear: I see them as they sat, the one small and slight, the other tall and brawny, leader and led, rough men of the hills. They told me this tale--in broken bits they gave it, a sentence at a time. ... They told of the river at our feet: of its rise, a thread-like rill, afar on Tallac's side, and its growth--a brook, a stream, a little river, a river, a mighty flood that rolled and ran from hills to plain to meet a final doom so strange that only the wise believe. ... reverencing the indomitable spirit of the mountaineer, worshiping the mighty Beast that nature built a monument of power, and loving and worshiping the clash, the awful strife heroic, at the close, when these two met." - Ernest Thompson Seton
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  • Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 17

    Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 17
    Jul 9 2009

    If you liked this book, here are some other books you might like. Thanks for listening!
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    2 mins
  • Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 16

    Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 16
    Feb 25 2009
    Part 16 -- "Landlocked." The story ends as stories end. Not with a bang.
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    17 mins
  • Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 15

    Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 15
    Feb 25 2009
    Part 15 -- "The Foaming Flood." Kellyan and Bonamy set more traps -- but this time with something extra. Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D" performed by Owen Poteat.
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    5 mins

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