in a berry-patch when four grizzlies fell with four 

 lightning-like shots. George McClelland in Wyo- 

 ming killed nine bears inside of a minute. He prob- 

 ably fired sixteen shots. These were grizzlies, two 

 of which were cubs. 



During the last few seconds of his life, after the 

 grizzly receives a fatal wound, he sometimes fights 

 in an amazingly effective and deadly manner. As 

 an old bear-hunter once said, "the grizzly is likely 

 to do a lot of execution after he is nominally dead." 

 Hundreds of hunters have been wounded and 

 scores of others killed by grizzlies which they were 

 trying to kill or capture. Hundreds of others have 

 escaped death or serious injury by extremely nar- 

 row margins. 



A grizzly appears to have caused the death of the 

 first white man to die within the bounds of Colo- 

 rado. This happened on the plains in the eastern 

 part of the State. Seeing the grizzly in the willows 

 near camp, the man went out to kill him. The 

 wounded grizzly knocked him down and mauled 

 him so severely that he died. 



In southern Colorado I saw a frightened hunter 

 on horseback pursued by a mother grizzly. He was 

 chasing her cubs, when she suddenly charged him. 



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