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Big Bear

By Stanley E. Bellamy, Russell L. Keller
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By Stanley E. Bellamy, Russell L. Keller
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California's Big Bear received its name from a perhaps unsurprising story—from an early encounter with a group of bears.

In 1845, Benjamin Davis Wilson—the future first mayor of Los Angeles and the grandfather of Gen. George S. Patton—led a 20-man posse into the San Bernardino Mountains in search of Native American raiding parties that had been attacking Riverside ranches. But what they found in a particular high-altitude valley were, instead, large and furry. Wilson's men soon roped 11 bea...

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