Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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California's Day of the Grizzly by William B. Secrest.

Hubert H. Bancroft, History of California, Vol. ll, 1886:

The bears became so bold as to kill and eat cattle every day in full view of the herdsmen... The Indians were often chased by the bears, and one was killed by a grizzly. More than 50 bears were killed in 1801-2, including one who had distinguished himself by eating five mules and seven cows. She asses were so attractive to bruin that all had to be brought to the presidio for protection. Reply