Category: 1850-1859
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“The Big Bear of Marin:” GB.1860.7
A grizzly weighing over eleven hundred pounds was killed last Friday on the Tomales coast, ten miles from Petaluma, by a party of hunters.
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![“Lairs among the [chaparral] and rocks:” T.GB.1859.2](https://predatormicrohistorynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Grease-Wood-Chaparral-California-Wikicommons.jpeg)
“Lairs among the [chaparral] and rocks:” T.GB.1859.2
“A few days since a grizzly bear was killed at Bear Mountain, near San Andreas. The Independent says: “Hunters report that quite a number of the dangerous customers have their lairs among the chapparel (sic) and rocks north-east of Salt Spring Valley, and not over three miles from San Andreas.”
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“Bear Gall:” GB.1859.1
“A large grizzly was killed near Bear mountain a few days since, and but a short distance from San Andreas.”
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“The presence of numerous grizzly bears near town is reported:” T.GB.1859.1
“The Independent of yesterday states that [the] presence of numerous grizzly bears near town is reported; the heavy fall of snow in the Sierra Nevadas has driven the deer, bear, and other large game down to the snowless region.”
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