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S. E. Hollister, the great American hunter & trapper: his famous encounter with the enormous she bear while capturing her cubs in the Sierra Nevada Mountains between the American and Mocosume Rivers, California, in March 1853

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Title: S. E. Hollister, the great American hunter & trapper: his famous encounter with the enormous she bear while capturing her cubs in the Sierra Nevada Mountains between the American and Mocosume Rivers, California, in March 1853
Creator: Eno, Henry C., undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1853]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Trapper, wearing buckskin and animal headdress, fights bear in front of den; one hand holds dagger, the other in bear's mouth, gun at waist; rifle lies against tree
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Henry C. Eno, 37 Park Row, N[ew] Y[ork].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 38.5 x 51.5 cm., visible image, dome top
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf158007c5
BANC PIC 1963.002:1529--FR
Subject: Bears
California, Northern
Clothing & dress
Fur trade

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