BLACKBEAR.1872.1

BLACKBEAR.1872.1 was an adult male American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) living in the forests beside the Rogue River in the Siskyou Mountains on the lands of the Takeima, Modoc, and Cow Creek Umpqua people when it was killed on Monday, 24 June, 1872 by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham (also known as “Lord Walsingham”).