Chapter 3: Phantom Grizzly

3.1: Historic etching of “Grizzly" Adams, with his grizzly bear, Benjamin Franklin, from the 1860 Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine

3.2: Hand reared young elk in the ranch meadow.

3.3: Stock trucks and our crew. Even my first photo from horseback was blurred by the horse’s flinching.

3.4: Trapper peak looms in the distance (Adobe Stock).

3.5: Glacier cirque containing Black Bear Lake, with Trapper Peak to the right (Adobe stock).

3.6: Trout frying on piece of sheet metal.

3.7: A nanny and kid that I photographed in Glacier National Park years later.

3:8. The crew built a huge bonfire to guide me back to camp (iStock, Credit Andris Barbans).

3.9: I turned and saw a grizzly’s head silhouetted against the moon, just before it opened its jaws and roared angrily (illustration).

3.10: Grizzly footprints in snow. top: tracks going from the lower left corner to the upper right (Adobe stock); bottom left handprint (Adobe stock) and right footprint (Dreamtime stock).

3.11: “Watch your back Jack!” After killing a big game animal, keeping an eye out for bears is critical (Artistic recreation from a Ron Aldrich photo).

3.12: St. Mary’s Lake at sunset (Adobe stock image).