The strange story7/9/2023 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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