Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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California's Day of the Grizzly by William B. Secrest.

Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1911:

"While it isn't likely that the grizzly bear will ever become extinct," mused Captain Jerry Kreiter, "he has all the same come to be something of a rarity in many of his original haunts, and the hunter seeking sport with him now must journey into the fastness of the far Sierras and Coast Range Mountains or into the wilderness of the British provinces in the Northwest.

Plumas National Bulletin, October 30, 1911:

...Since the departure of the sheep herds from the summer ranges in the high Sierras to the winter ranges in the foothills, the bears have come down to the intermediate altitudes. They are mostly of the black and brown variety, with an occasional grizzly. Reply