![]() The roster of respected bears is short, which can seem unfair by modern standards - but bears did thin the ranks of the reckless, the unlucky, and the now-forgotten. Both were immortalized, long after they were dead (along with their bears), in books and TV shows. The more nuanced Little Balser killed bears but also befriended them, as did Grizzly Adams. ![]() A generation later, Tiger Whitehead and Wilburn Waters had their dead bear tallies recorded on their tombstones. Famous bears from that time include the grizzlies that ripped apart mountain men Hugh Glass and Jedediah Smith, and the bears recounted in the tall tales of Jim Bridger, who kept his grizzly encounters at a safe distance.ĭaniel Boone, a gentleman by mountaineer standards, marked his bear fights by carving graffiti into trees near the sites of the encounters. But bears sometimes get in a enough licks to get remembered, particularly in brawls from years ago, in pioneer days. ![]()
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