Rabu, 16 Agustus 2017

California Grizzly Tales

Hunters killed off the last grizzly bears in the state in the 1920s, but for centuries these ferocious predators had terrorized Indians, vaqueros, Forty-Niners and ranchers. “There are abundance of elk, deer, and antelope,” California miner Daniel Woods wrote in his 1849–50 journal, “but the most remarkable animal is the grisly sic bear….It possesses wonderful …

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