The Historic Grizzly

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Throughout the Southwest, California, the Central Rockies, and most of the Northern Rockies, not one stockman stepped forward to protect the grizzlies on his ranch. Not one U.S. Forest ranger took action to halt the bloodshed in his national forest. No influential landowner, attorney, or county or state official spoke out against eradicating the great bear. These men and their lands, in turn, received their due recompense. The grizzly vanished from their lands.
Texas was the first state to officially claim the extinction of the species within its borders when the last bear was killed there in 1890, followed by South Dakota in 1897. The official extinction date for the grizzly in Mexico was 1920. California, once the bastion of the giant grizzly bear, saw its last individual killed in 1922. Utah followed with the last grizzly killed in 1923. The last grizzly was killed in Pregan in 1931, in Washington in 1936, New Mexico in 1933, and Arizona in 1935. 
The extermination of the grizzly caused few tears nationally. While the press lamented the slaughter of the buffalo - and beaver before it and the elk after it - little ink was wasted on the demise of the great bear. And when a bear story appeared in the newspaper it was usually as account of the killing of a "last grizzly." Reply