For generations at that point, the bear had been a shorthand for all the danger that people were encountering on the frontier, and the federal government was actually systematically exterminating bears and lots of other predators too, like coyotes and wolves.
Do tada su generacijama medvjedi bili simbol svih opasnosti koje su prijetile ljudima na rubnim djelovima naselja, a savezna vlada je sustavno istrebljivala medvjede kao i mnoge ostale grabežljivce poput kojota i vukova.