Bear Size ~

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The Grizzly Book by Jack Samson - The Big skull by Grancel Fitz.

In the case of bears, it wasn't hard to find. The world's record grizzly skull is in the National Museum in Washington. Since ( brown ) bears may live for 40 years or more, unless somebody shoots them, and since they keep getting bigger until they die, it is a fairly safe bet that this old monster was born in the great days of the bison, at least a century ago. 
 
The Grizzly Book by Jack Samson - Hunting the Grizzly Bear by Ned W. Frost.

"Old Four Toes" was finally killed in 1908 by some local rancher-sportsman. The account of his death makes an exciting story. The men who killed him were accustomed to judging the weight of animals and they estimated this bear at eighteen hundred pounds. The hide measured twelve feet six inches long and eleven feet seven inches wide. Two weeks later they exhibited an eight-inch cube of fat taken from the animal's back after it had been compressed a great deal by packing it in under the pressure of a diamond-hitch. Reply