Ghost Grizzlies: Does the Great Bear Still Haunt Colorado?: Does the great bear still haunt Colorado? 3rd ed.

By 1952 it was thought the grizzly bear had been wiped out in Colorado pushed to oblivion by predator-phobic sheep ranchers and government trappers. Even so through the mid-1900s ghostly stories of grizzly sightings continued to haunt remote corners of the dark-timbered San Juan Mountains in the southern-most part of the state. Then one spooky September evening in 1979 a flesh-and-blood grizzly sow was surprised on its daybed in the South San Juans by a bowhunter ... and the rest as they say is history. Or is it? As author and veteran outdoorsman David Petersen takes us along on his quest for evidence of the next last Colorado grizzly we find ourselves enjoying a masterful mystery unfolding character by adventure page by riveting page. Although Ghost Grizzlies is set in Colorado it stands as a timeless metaphor for every wild place and creature that finds itself under the gun of human encroachment still today. This revised 3rd edition has a new cover 12 new pages of b/w photos and updates.