Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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

Oakland Daily Evening Tribune, May 17, 1914:

"I began meeting Club-Foot on the trails. He weighed fully 2,500 pounds, feared nothing and seemed to bear a charmed life. Indians call him the "Evil Spirit." Many times he's been shot. Guess he must pack twenty-five pounds of lead in his pelt.

...Once he lunged at me from a thicket and swiped at me as I dodged behind a boulder. His weight carried him down the slope saving me that time.

Then again we thought we had him. Mexican vaqueros roped him, but the brute just pulled their little mule mounts right up to him by grasping the lariats in his paws. Having no guns in the crowd, we had to let him go. Reply