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All week long Eden assured his fellow Tories that the country backed him, insisted that he would have no misgivings about winning a general election even if it came tomorrow, but was determined not to call an election for two years. His optimistic thesis was jarred by a by-election...
Squires leaped away, scrambled into the trees, losing his Winchester and shells. He raced down the ravine. Ken Scott, for his part, thought the grizzly was chasing Squires. He knelt, opened his pocketknife, tried to clear his rifle. Then the bear was on him. The grizzly bit into his hand...
The Kill. In the silence of the ravine, Squires had stopped. He heard Scott's shrieks, the grizzly's bull-like roar. Should he go back? Could he go back? His Winchester lay empty in the thicket above. No. He must get help. Running and stumbling for a...
The Certainty. Squires and two others stayed with Ken Scott; the rest set out to get help. As the hours passed, Scott said: "God, I wish I'd die and get this over with." Then Ken Scott died.
Last week in Fort Benton, the townsfolk were talking about Ken Scott and Viv Squires. Some people wanted to name the high school athletic field in Scott's honor. Others planned to raffle off the bear's head and give the money to his widow.