Word: hasselborg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes came around, there was blackness before him . . . Hasselborg instinctively shifted his eyes upward toward the top of this blank wall. His mouth sagged open in his beard and his eyes went glassy at what he saw. There was a splotch of red on top of the thing . . . The bloodshot eyes . . . glared down at him from a height twice his own . . . Yes, it was the gigantic bear-the one he had killed but a moment ago. He had forgotten his own precepts about approaching bears until they were dead. And his rifle stood against a bush two steps behind, ineffective...
...grizzly's paw. Some of the experiences are Professor-Hunter Hibben's own: he has tracked the varmints through the Southwest and in Alaska. Others he gleaned secondhand from such fast-trailing U.S. hunters as Ben Lilly (TIME, May 15) and Alaska's Allen Hasselborg, who left the States in 1900 and settled for good on desolate Admiralty Island to hunt and trap...
Touchdown Leap. The mammoth brown bear that rose up from the dead was the last one Hunter Hasselborg ever hunted professionally. To escape, he made "a sailing leap, the kind a frantic quarterback makes when the goal line and winning touchdown are almost his," and landed face-down in a shallow gulley. While the bear clawed his back to ribbons and chewed away the muscles in his shoulder, Hasselborg hugged the earth, finally blacked out. Later he awoke to find the bear gone. It took hours to get himself into his homemade boat, and it was two days before...
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