Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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

The Fresno Morning Republican, August 6, 1917:

No Grizzly Left in California

San Francisco, Aug. 5 - The California field artillery, now organizing, wants a grizzly bear for a mascot. It detailed a man to catch or buy one, and he has reported that the only grizzly bear he could find in California was the one on the state seal.

Charleston Daily Mail, July 2, 1919:

During the last 25 years the grizzly population has enormously decreased. The grizzly is in danger of extermination. In California, where he was once numerous, he is now extinct. ...When the grizzly bear shall have passed - and he is found in such lamentably small numbers now that his exit from our midst is but a question of years - there shall have disappeared from our mountains one of the sublimest specimens of animal life that exalts the western wilderness. Reply