Next morning they followed its tracks in the snow, and found it a quarter or a mile away.

It was near a pine and had buried itself under the loose earth, pine needles, and snow; Woody's companion almost walked over it, and putting his rifle to its ear blew out its brains.
In all his experience Woody had personally seen but four men who were badly mauled by bears.

Three of these were merely wounded.

One was bitten terribly in the back.

Another had an arm partially chewed off.
The third was a man named George Dow, and the accident happened to him on the Yellowstone about the year 1878.