A Grizzly Stole My Son's First Deer. So We Tracked the Bear Down

A Grizzly Stole My Son's First Deer. So We Tracked the Bear Down

This story, “The Cyanide Creek Affair,” appeared in the June 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. “Get out of the way, kids!” I shouted. It’s coming down the mountain straight at you!” “It” was a wounded, somersaulting grizzly bear. The children were my two sons: Tim, age 14, and Mark, age 12. When our hunting trip began two days earlier, we had no idea it would end this way. In Montana there is a two-day teachers’ convention in late October, and the boy…