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Bear Tales for the Ages

Alaska Stories

 Bear Tales for the Ages

Pub. 2001 / 256pp 
(Hardcover)
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In his newest book best-selling author Larry Kaniut serves up 256 riveting pages in 28 Stories of encounters with this four-legged wonder of the woods, spanning the time period from 1816 to 1999. Stories include a Montana grizzly ambushing a sheep herder, claw-knife fights with bears, an Eskimo hunting grizzlies with a .22 single shot rifle, dogs versus bears, hunting down a man-killer brownie and shooting brown bears from the air.


Table of Contents

• A Bad One - 13
• Battle of the Giants - 23
• "The Lords on My Side" - 29
• Life for Life - 39
• Protagonist or Antagonist? - 47
• Death Stalked the Ice - 49
• Two, Close to Death - 59
• A Bad Mistake - 63
• Bear and Bull Fights - 67
• He Talked to the Bear - 75
• Two Bears Too Close - 87
• Bud's Faithful Kenai - 95
• In Search of a Man-killer - 101
• Between a Hard Place and a Rock - 111
• Shoot Straight - 121

Alaska Stories

• A Bear from Nowhere - 123
• Almost too much Grizzly - 135
• Buried Alive...Twice - 145
• Determined to Live - 151
• A Man's Man - 165
• One Tough Cookie - 173
• Ever the Woman - 179
• Toe to Toe with a Grizzly - 185
• Old Groaner - 191
• "There's One!" - 209
• A Brave Brave - 223
• Range Bull and Renegade Bear - 229
• This Bear was all Business - 235
• Story Sources - 243
• My Bear Book Collection - 246

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