Beast That Walks Like Man The Story of the Grizzly Bear

Name: Beast That Walks Like Man The Story of the Grizzly Bear
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ISBN: 9781570983948

ISBN-10: 1570983941

ISBN-13: 9781570983948

Edition: 2003

Authors: Harold McCracken

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By the mid-1950s grizzly bears had been all but wiped out in the southern states of the USA. As you read about the accounts of this powerful recluse's role in Native American rituals and myths you will relive the encounters early explorers and mountain men experienced with grizzlies.

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Publication date: 7/14/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.42" wide x 8.50" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Foreword


A Bear of a Man: Dr. Harold McCracken



The Grizzly Today




The Beast That Walks Like Man



Birth of a Noble Legend



"The Grizzly Was Our Ancestor"



Sagas of Long Ago



Legends Mean More Than Stories



First to Meet the Grizzly



Lewis and Clark Blazed a Trail



A New Species Is Christened



A Great Creature Meets His Nemesis



They Were Many and Mighty



Respected by the Great



The American King of Beasts



Wild Sport in Old California



Fabulous Mr. "Grizzly" Adams



"Good Grizzly: Dead Grizzly!"



The Hairy Outlaws



Strategic Retreat, with Dignity



From Desert to Arctic Waste



Bears of the Snowshoe Country



The Long Winter Sleep



A Whole Season with Grizzlies



Down to the Sea for Salmon



The Feast of Ivan



A World of Their Own



Borderland of Oblivion



Last of Old Ephraim's Tribe


Appendix


Footnotes


Description and Classification



Description and Classification



A Checklist of the Grizzlies and Big Brown Bears of North America


Index