Tracking the Great Bear

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote often of encounters with Ursus horribilis—grizzly bears—as they made their pioneering journey across the Louisiana Purchase during 1804-1806. Mountain Man Hugh Glass had a near-deadly confrontation on the plains of South Dakota, while other explorers and Indians also faced the ferocious bears, far from where we think of them as living today.   Although in the 19th century, grizzly bears roamed far out onto the plains, the last remaining wild hab