Word: hulet
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...inclination and declaration, old Bill Hulet is close kin to such folk heroes as Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and Mike Fink. And when there is boasting to be done, Bill will talk as loud and as long as any ring-tailed roarer that ever lived. "Born under a stump, suckled on sow bear milk and raised in jail," he proclaims. "I know every root in these parts, every huckleberry meadow, bee tree, strand of swamp grass and skunk-cabbage patch. To hunt bears, you've got to be as tough as a good old bear dog. Well...
...logging-camp foreman in the State of Washington, Hulet got his first bear at the age of twelve, has since killed 3,159 more in a lifetime dedicated to prowling the great woods of the Olympic Peninsula. Hulet refers to himself respectfully as "Bear Bill," is so thoroughly devoted to the hunt that he is fully at ease only in the woods. Around people, Hulet wears an air of perpetual apprehension. Bulky and rounded (5 ft. 10½ in., 240 Ibs.), Hulet lumbers over the ground like the bear he hunts. And when he draws on his huge bearskin cape...