This story, “Fred Bear at 80,” was published in the March 1982 issue of Outdoor Life. In the early 1940s a seemingly insignificant event took place. A man from New York, who worked for the Corning ...

We never saw him again. Bowhunter Fred Bear with a giant Alaska brown bear. His track in wet snow was 14 inches long, and Ed believed he might have been the biggest brownie he’d ever encountered.