Category: Mountain Maidu
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“Our ‘Nimrods’ have returned:” GB.1860.5; GB.1860.5A; GB.1860.5B
“As Mr. Shick, of this place, was returning from the O’Hara claims on the hill back of town, on yesterday, he encountered a large bear, which he thinks must have been a grizzly”
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“Three grizzly bears in one week:” GB.1860.2; GB.1860.3; GB.1860.4
“We are informed by a gentleman from the mountains, that a hunter killed three grizzly bears in one week, lately, on the divide between the south and middle forks of Feather river, near the Mountain Spring House.”
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“Terrible Fight with a Grizzly:” GB.1860.1
“The Sierra Citizen tells of three hunters who encountered a grizzly, which they wounded with six shooters. The bear pursued and caught one of them, and while the others fled the captured hunter had a terrible hand-to-hand fight with he monster.”
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“A Cinnamon Bear was killed near Jamison:” BB.1860.1
“A few days previous to this adventure, a cinnamon bear was killed near Jamison. It is bearly possible that the whole story is a “sell” – we think not, however.”
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