Memories of a Bear Hunter

"Had more encounters with grizzly bears than any other man who ever lived." - New York Times, 1969 "The most celebrated American hunter of that period was Pickett, he shot literally hundreds of grizzlies." -Ballistics, 1955 "In the season of 1881, he killed twenty-three ... life in those mountains frequently brought him in contact with that king of the beasts of the North American Continent, the grizzly bear." - E. Polk Johnson, 1912 "I determined early in my experience that to run away from an