The Historic Grizzly

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Sightings of silver-tipped bears persisted through the 1940s, along with rumors of a bear killed here and there, mostly by sheep men who had inundated many of those isolated corners in the West. Every sheepherder carried a rifle to shoot on site any coyote, mountain lion, or wolf. Or grizzly. Most certainly an unknown toll of "last grizzlies" were killed by sheep tenders who simply kept tight-lipped about it. 
By 1950 even the most optimistic conservationist had thrown up their hands and removed the "virtual" from in front of the "extinction." Those few scattered bears that might have somehow escaped the bullets, traps, hounds, or poison would have surely died off by then. Reply