The strange story7/4/2023 ![]() The moment was memorialized in a cartoon, which showed a not-very-intimidating bear tied to a tree and the president holding up his hand, sparing its life. ![]() “He felt that would go against his code as a sportsman to shoot it,” says journalist Jon Mooallem. But when Roosevelt saw this female bear-dazed, injured and all tied up-he refused. Roosevelt had finished for the day, but when the party’s dogs cornered a bear, a well-meaning member of the party clocked it on the head, tied it to a tree and called for Roosevelt to come shoot it. ![]() ![]() That was, until President Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Mississippi on a hunting trip. Bears were called “murderers” for their tendency to attack livestock, and they were being systematically killed by the federal government. In 1902, bears in the United States were symbols of all the dangers of the frontier.
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