Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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

Hutching's California Magazine, September 1856:

A Mr. Drury and his party were out on a prospecting trip for gold; and what was then very unusual, they were not well provided with weapons, but Mr. Drury concluded to have a shot at a bear that was near them, which he wounded, when he immediately took to a tree, and his companions ran off for rifles and men; but while they were away, the bear actually gnawed the tree - a mere sapling - in two, and after biting him through the body severely, left him for dead; but by timely assistance being afforded, he recovered, yet will be a cripple for life. Reply