The Historic Grizzly

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Adams built a large log cabin trap along the Mercedes River in Northern California. Months after first baiting the trap, Adams was awakened in the middle of the night by the unearthly bellowing of a bear. With pine torches, Adams and two Indian boys approached the trap and found a huge grizzly "taking chips out of the pine logs faster than I could with an axe."  
To distract the bear from tearing through the logs, Adams thrust a torch into its face, then prodded it back with sharp sticks and hot rods. Adams camped on top of the log cabin trap for eight days to keep the huge brute from escaping. He finally left the boys to watch over the bear and hastened for Stockton to fetch a steel cage.


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