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the big brown bear. Unfortunately there are no specimens known 

 to show what this bear was, whether another species of brown griz- 

 zly or merely large, morose, and uneducated individuals of the cinna- 

 mon- or black-bear group. The general keenness of Indians in 

 recognizing specific differences would seem to indicate another species 

 of grizzly with no name but the one they give it. 



Captain Applegate, with a California hunter named Morenus P. 

 Crapo, killed the last one of these bears that he knows of just north 

 of the Lake of the Woods about 1868. It was a large reddish- 

 brown male, but the length of claws was not noted. He thinks, how- 

 ever, that these bears did not climb trees. Twice on previous occa- 

 sions bears of this species had apparently attempted to attack him. 

 Once in 1862 on a peak in the Siskiyou Mountains when he was with- 

 out a gun ? one attempted to climb up some rocky peaks to get at him 

 despite his vociferous protests but was finally dissuaded by stones 

 rolled down about it. On another occasion four of these bears that 

 he followed on crusted snow turned and came toward him when he 

 shouted at them, but whether hostilely inclined or through mistaken 

 identity was never learned. 



John B. Griffin (Oreg. Sportsman, January 1918, p. 35), gives an 

 account of a fight between two grizzly bears witnessed by Fred Barne- 

 burg, an early settler in the Rogue River Valley. It was on Hoxie 

 Prairie near Medf ord ; but no hint of the date is given, except that 

 Barneburg was one of the early settlers in the valley who hunted deer 

 where Medford now stands and hunted bears on Dead Indian Creek 

 and around Grizzly Mountain. From his camp on the edge of Hoxie 

 Prairie he came out of the timber one morning armed with an old 

 muzzle-loading rifle and was surprised to see two large grizzlies 

 fighting savagely in the open. They would rear up, claw each other 

 bite and growl, and roll over and over on the ground, oblivious to 

 anything around them. Having only a single-shot muzzleloader 

 he wisely decided not to attempt to settle difficulties between the 

 bears but to return quietly to camp. 



Griffin adds that grizzlies in those days were dangerous. They 

 were plentiful and not hunted much, and it took a man with plenty 

 of nerve to attack one with only an old muzzle-loading rifle, or even 

 with the earlier improved guns. He goes on to describe his own ex- 

 perience in killing a large grizzly in the Siskiyou Mountains at close 

 quarters with the bear coming on until it dropped within 20 feet o: 

 him, after receiving several fatal shots. 



In 1910 M. J. Anderson, supervisor of the Siskiyou National Forest 

 reported grizzly bears as very scarce. 



In 1914 Luther J. Goldman was told of a grizzly killed in the 

 Yamsay Mountains by an Indian about 1911, but he had no means 

 of verifying the report. 



In 1916 Mr. Wampler, an old hunter and trapper living west of 

 Upper Klamath Lake, told the writer that he had on two occasions 

 in previous years seen bear tracks too large for any black bear, anc 

 he was confident there were still grizzlies in the Mount Pitt section 



In 1924 and 1925 the Forest Service reported 1 grizzly bear on eacl 

 of the Cascade and Siskiyou National Forests, and in 1931 2 anc 

 in 1932 1 on the Wallowa'Forest, and in 1933 1 on the WilHamette 



