Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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

J. Goldsborough Bruff, Gold Rush, the Journals, Drawings, and other Papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff, 1949:

He has never shot a grizzler, and often remarked that if one came down in range he would "blizzen" at him. And he is anxious to obtain the meat of one. I have protested against his molesting one of these Kings of the Sierra Nevada, assuring him that none but a practiced mountaineer can expect to fell him at the first shot, and if he but wounded one, his life would pay the forfeit of his temerity. Reply