Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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

William R. Garner, Letters from California, 1846-1847, 1970:

In short, from the moment that a person arrives at the spot fixed upon to lay wait for the bear's coming to the bait, until he is fast to a tree or killed, he feels himself elated. Every motion of those noble animals, the horses, which seems as if they were doubly proud when they feel the strain of the lasso from the saddle, and appear to take as much delight in the sport as the riders themselves, is ground beyond my power of description.

I have dwelt at length on this subject, because it surpasses everything of the kind on horseback that ever I either saw or read or heard tell of. Reply