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02-09-2016, 03:10 PM( This post was last modified: 02-09-2016, 03:11 PM by brotherbear )
California's Day of the Grizzly by Willaim B. Secrest.
Marysville Herald, September 20, 1850:
"What, you hev never seen a live grizzly!" exclaimed an old Oregon gold digger, with whom we were engaged in a "bar" conversation one evening on Jamestown Bar.
"Never," said I, in all seriousness, "it has never been my good fortune to encounter one of the beautiful varmints."
"Well, hoss, when you do, perhaps it won't be the most pleasantest minnit you've ever hed, for thar aint no varmint in these hills, nor any whar else I've ben, that kin kick wuss either round or sideways, than a full grown grizzly."