Word: mcfadden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Multimillionaire Southwest Oilman William H. McFadden told his agents to hire the best guides available, they lost no time signing up bearded, barrel-chested, Bible-reading Ben Lilly, 64, the most indefatigable hunter of bears and mountain lions in the West. With four mule-drawn wagons and a small army of dogs, horses, pack mules, cooks and a photographer, McFadden and a party of his friends started north. Hunter Ben Lilly's chief mission: "To get McFadden a chance at a grizzly bear...
Shadow That Bear. Scouting ahead in the mountains above Taos, N. Mex., Ben Lilly struck a fresh trail. He hurried back to camp with the good news but McFadden had been called East on business...
Keep that bear shadowed, Ben was told; as soon as he could, McFadden would come back and shoot...
When spring came, Ben rejoined the party in Idaho. But the lost bear continued to haunt him. Three years later, long after the hunt was over, disappointed Hunter Lilly was still writing to McFadden: "I will never feel right until...