Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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The Beast That Walks Like Man by Harold McCracken.
The most comprehensive book that has been written about these animals is William H. Wright's volume 'The Grizzly Bear', which was published in September 1909.
Later, however, Mr. Wright contradicts himself by stating that "to sum up, then, it seems to be beyond doubt that a century's contact with men armed with rifles has rendered the grizzly bear a more wary and cautious animal. It would, indeed, be strange if this were not so, for the grizzly is quick to learn and has had innumerable opportunities of learning; and there have been thirty or forty generations during which his individual lessons have been moulding the instinct of the race." Reply