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About this Book
In 1769, some 10,000 grizzlies roamed California.
One hundred years later, these magnificent beasts faced extinction. Today
they are long gone.
In The Day of the Grizzly, prominent California historian William
Secrest, Sr. (California Desperadoes, When the Great Spirit Died)
tells the fascinating story of the most ferocious animal in the West and
how it met it’s demise at the hand of man.
Grizzlies were slaughtered out of fear, used for meat, and even
forced to fight with bulls for the sheer sport of it. Day of the Grizzly
includes the story of the life of greatest bear man of them all—Grizzly
Adams!
As with all of Secrest’s books this one is lavishly illustrated with
contemporary photographs and engravings. Some never published
before.
About the Author
Chronicler of the American West for almost 50 years, William B. Secrest, Sr., is the author of
eight books about early California crime, including
California Badmen, California Desperadoes,and Perilous
Trails, Dangerous Men. He has also written a history of California’s
Indian wars, When
the Great Spirit Died; a biography of San Francisco’s legendary
chief of detectives, Isaiah Lees (Dark and Tangled Threads of Crime); a
biography of Harry Love, captain of the California Rangers who hunted down
Joaquin Murietta (The
Man from the Rio Grande); and is coauthor
of California Disasters, written with his son, William B. Secrest, Jr.
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