The Historic Grizzly

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Though strychnine was not used as liberally in the Northern Rockies and bordering states as it was farther south, sheep and cattle ranchers used it extensively in parts of the south and central portions of Idaho. Some ranchers in eastern Montana counties also used poison, often to kill off wolves, but if any wandering grizzlies also fell victim to it, so much the better.
PARC also penetrated Wyoming's seemingly vast wilderness and, with the help of strychnine-laced beef balls, managed to exterminate the great bear from all but the northwest corner of that state bordering Yellowstone National Park. Surplus bears that filtered down from the park were killed on site. Colonel William Pickett, a Civil War veteran, founded a ranch on the Greybull River near present-day Meeteetsie, Wyoming, where he killed scores of grizzlies from 1877 to 1904. One fall Pickett killed 19 grizzlies over carcasses he'd set out. And just south of Yellowstone Park in Cody, Wyoming, lived Ned Frost, a famous hunter and guide who claimed he was involved in 350 bear killings. Reply