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“we had to live chiefly upon roots for ten days.”
― Osborne Russell, Journal of a Trapper: Or Nine Years Residence among the Rocky Mountains Between the years of 1834 and 1843

“be happiness in ignorance which knowledge and science destroys.”
― Osborne Russell, Journal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843

“At this moment I pulled trigger, as I knew not what else to do and hardly knew that I did this, but it accidentally happened that my rifle was pointed towards the bear when I pulled and the ball piercing his heart, he gave one bound from me, uttered a deathly howl and fell dead, but I trembled as if I had an ague fit for half an hour after. We butchered him, as he was very fat, packed the meat and skin on our horses and returned to the fort with the trophies of our bravery, but I secretly determined in my own mind never to molest another wounded grizzly bear in a marsh or thicket.”
― Osborne Russell, Journal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843