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Article: Bear necessity. (Western Wanderings).(famous bear hunt in California)
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- February 1, 2003
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MT. PINOS, CALIFORNIA--From this mountain's 8,831-foot summit, you see a Southern California you might be surprised still exists. To the south rise the high ridges of Ventura County's Sespe backcountry. To the west, the Cuyama River curls through corrugated badlands. Mainly what you sense are space and wildness.
In short, you see why this was the ideal locale for the most famous bear hunt in California history.
"HOW HE WAS CAPTURED," read the headline of the San Francisco Examiner on November 3, 1889. "It Took Over Five Months to Do It, but He Was Caught at Last."
The author of the article was a San Francisco journalist named Allen Kelly The ...