Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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

Los Angeles Times, June 11, 1901:

A big, brown grizzly bear is roaming in the mountains not many miles from Pasadena, killing luckless burros and leaving prints of paws so large as to indicate that he is of immense size. Six burros have disappeared from Sturtevant's Camp within the last two weeks and are supposed to have become the prey of old bruin, the mangled carcasses of two of them having been found six or seven miles from the camp. Tracks of the "varmint" have been found in the west fork of the San Gabriel River and in Shortcut Canyon, the prints of the forepaws measuring eight inches across, giving basis, in the minds of hunters, for an estimated weight of 700 or 800 pounds. Reply