According to the Lewis and Clark journals, grizzly bears did not chase Lewis or Clark, but rather one of the other members. On May 11, 1805 its stated that "We now found that Bratton had shot him (a bear) through the center of the lungs, notwithstanding which he had pursued him near half a mile and had returned more than double that distance and with his talons had prepared himself a bed in the earth of about 2 feet deep and five long and was perfectly alive when we found him."
On May 14th,1805 some of the men had another encounter with a bear:
"...one of the party wounded a brown bear very badly, but being alone did not think proper to pursue him. In the evening the men in two of the rear canoes discovered a large brown bear lying in the open grounds about 300 paces from the river, and six of them went out to attack him, all good hunters; they took the advantage of a small eminence which concealed them and got within 40 paces of him unperceived, two of them reserved their fires as had been previously conscerted, the four others fired nearly at the same time and put each his bullet through him, two of the balls passed through the bulk of both lobes of his lungs, in an instant this monster ran at them with open mouth, the two who had reserved their fires discharged their pieces at him as he came towards them, boath of them struck him, one only slightly and the other fortunately broke his shoulder, this however only retarded his motion for a moment only, the men unable to reload their guns took to flight, the bear pursued and had very nearly overtaken them before they reached the river; two of the party betook themselves to a canoe and the others separated an concealed themselves among the willows, reloaded their pieces, each discharged his piece at him as they had an opportunity they struck him several times again but the guns served only to direct the bear to them, in this manner he pursued two of them seperately so close that they were obliged to throw aside their guns and pouches and throw themselves into the river altho' the bank was nearly twenty feet perpendicular; so enraged was this anamal that he plunged into the river only a few feet behind the second man he had compelled take refuge in the water, when one of those who still remained on shore shot him through the head and finally killed him."
meriweather lewis and william
there was 1 grizzly bear attack that they ran from
The grizzly bear, the beaver, and the white-tailed jackrabbit were just a few of the many animals and plants discovered by Lewis and Clark.
· Lewis and Clark were warned by local Indians that there were large grizzly bears but Lewis thought they were only a danger to the Indians because the Indians only had bows and arrows not guns. One day Lewis and another man encountered two grizzly bears. Lewis' companion shot and killed the bear but the when Lewis shot the second bear he only injured it which caused the bear to charge toward him. The grizzly chased Lewis for 80 yards before it was shot and killed by Lewis' companion.
grizzly bear
yes he was attacked
Lewis and Clark encountered a Grizzly Bear, which was more aggressive and noticeably more difficult to kill than its eastern Black Bear relative. They had to shoot it multiple times before it crossed a nearby stream and later died.
Grizzly Bear
Yes
Make a little bear cub sound, that sounds like your hurt; or ...Call The Grizzly Bear.
The Grizzly Bear
April 29, 1805