Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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The Grizzly Bear... Although the grizzly bear was thus discovered by Lewis and Clark in 1805, these explorers did not return to civilization until 1807, and even then their zoological records were not promptly worked up. It was not, therefore, until 1814 that any naturalist gave even tentative recognition to the discovery thus made. In that year, on the 4th of May, in his introductory address before the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, Governor De Witt Clinton, speaking of the work which lay open to the coming naturalists of the country, referring to "the white, brown, or grizzly bear, the ferocious tyrant of the American woods," and spoke of it as "a nondescript, and a distinct animal from the polar bear, with which it is confounded." It ranged, he said, the country along the Missouri River where "it exists, the terror of the savages, the tyrant of all other animals, devouring alike man and beast and defying the attack of whole tribes of Indians."  Reply