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Show Chapter 1 Destined to be Different One lazy summer day in 1891, in the Zenobia Basin of Colorado, two grizzly bear cubs were tumbling about at the foot of a mountain, cuffing each other, peeping under rocks for tasty insects, and rolling around like clumsy balls of fur. Suddenly a girl on horseback charged toward them, a lasso twirling expertly over her head. The rope settled over one of the cubs and the girl looped her end tightly around her saddle horn in a firm "tie down." The girl had always wanted a bear cub for a pet and now she had one. Or so she thought. A loud crashing was heard a short way up the mountain. There was an angry growl and the mother grizzly came lurching down the slope to protect her threatened cub. The girl's horse began to buck and squeal with fright. She hung on, fumbling with the rope looped around her saddle horn. It wouldn't budge. As the bear charged downhill the girl's brother circled helplessly around her, trying to hand her his pocket knife to cut the rope, but she couldn't reach it. The |