This story, “The Lookout Grizzly,” appeared in the October 1971 issue of Outdoor Life. My first head-on encounter with a bear in the Canadian North was more amusing than dangerous. At least it was amusing to my companion Arthur Brindle, an engineer for a Vancouver mining company who was posted at Telegraph Creek, British Columbia. Telegraph Creek was the end of Stikine River travel, and in 1923 I had a job there with the Hudson’s Bay Company. I …
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