Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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The Grizzly Bear... So much for the early history of the grizzly. It is not much, but it is all we have. Lewis and Clark's observations are the basis of it, repeated with slight variations and considerable embellishments in regard to ferociousness and bloodthirstiness by each after writer. Occasionally one of these adds an original observation or a hearsay anecdote. Then these in turn are repeated and embellished. 
Meanwhile, the grizzly had been seized upon as a literary godsend in another quarter. To the romancers, the discovery of an Ursus horribilis was like the throwing open to settlement to locate quarter sections. Captain Mayne Reid was the hero of the movement. Jenkins, Lawrence, and a host of others preceded and followed him. Kit Carson ( and Audubon ) wrote reliable and was not listened to. Jim Bridger told whoppers and was believed.  Reply