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Transcription
Trompsoy
Canyon
287.
July 15, 1932.
Those present at the feeding station were:
adults
cubs
1
with
2
1
2
1
2
1
3
1
3
1
2 yearlings
1
1 yearling
1
about 10 adults besides.
After the crowd had left the one with 3 cubs who had charged Dr. Castler last night was shot.
The cubs escaped into the forest.
One bullet, soft nose steel jacketed .35 caliber struck her in back of the neck tore the atlas to pieces,
got through the spinal cord,
medulla & brain & out the left side of her face. She crumpled immediately without a sound.
The other grizzlies fled to the forest except one old female with 2 cubs who kept coming out into the meadow to watch us. Finally she retreated also.
The shot grizzly looked like a large one when alive and also when we picked her up - she