Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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The Beast That Walks Like Man by Harold McCracken.
The grizzly and the Indian have had a lot in common. Their 'pied-a-terre' had become firmly planted in America long before the first white man set foot on this continent. They had a certain synonymity of character and faced a similar fate - marked for racial destruction by the same natural enemy who chose to make their native land his own. Just as the cry of our frontier fighting army of the West became "The only good Indian is a dead Indian," the cattle and stockmen adopted a similar war cry against every grizzly bear that breathed. The only difference is that the determination of the white man to exterminate the grizzly has been retained more persistently and carried a great deal closer to an ultimate and complete conclusion. Reply