1. The California Grizzly Bear
"On September 2, 1769, a small expedition of leatherjacket soldiers, missionaries and muleteers killed a large-but-lean grizzly bear on the shore of an ocean-side lake in Upper California about 80 miles north of today's Santa Barbara It was the first time that a white man had ever killed a California grizzly" (Silva 66). ... Another major human activity related to the extinction of California grizzly bears is the Gold Rush. ...
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