California Grizzly

by Lloyd P. Tevis Jr. and Tracy Irwin Storer

Book Overview

The California Bear Flag and the University of California football team the Golden Bears emblemize the great animal that has been extinct in California since the 1920s but once numbered perhaps as many as ten thousand in the state. Forty years after its original publication, University of California Press proudly reissues California Grizzly, still the most comprehensive book on the bear's history in California. The lessons of the book resonate today...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520205200
• ISBN13: 9780520205208
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Bear as California Emblem

Beyond the scientific portions of this book, California Grizzly spends a Chapter discussing the role of the grizzly bear as a symbol and emblem of California. It collects facts and pieces of information not readily available elsewhere, like very early images of the California Bear Flag and information about drawings of the California grizzly. Given that its two authors were zoologists, it is impressive that they spent the time and had the interest to establish some of the more humanly significant materials about this animal, and its influence as symbol. Since the book was first published in 1955, it is pleasant to have a new edition, which makes its information available to a new generation of readers and Californians. William J. Trinkle---- Director The Bear Flag Museum

To bear with unbearable sorrow

Though the work is forty years old, Storer and Tevis remains a valuable sourcebook for those wishing to understand the full nature of an extinction. It's all here: bear biology, relationships with Indians, relationships with Spaniards, stories of famous California Grizzlies, the ~real~ life and time of Grizzly Adams, and more. Whether you are a biologist, a historian, or just an armchair wildlife enthusiast, you will find California Grizzly a fascinating and necessary book.