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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
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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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