Bow hunters. When did “Archery Hunters” become a thing?
Predators generally attack without warning. The Grizz is something else, maybe they were generally meaner in those days, but Lewis and Clark reported that grizzly bears often simply charged and attacked at full speed as soon as they had a clear line of sight. And they are fast.
They had under-estimated the grizzly bear, the Indians had been regaling them with accounts of these gentlemen all the way up the Missouri in their journey, and Lewis figured it was exaggeration. They soon found out that wasn’t the case.
Precisely. We have known for 200 years that grizzly bears are aggressive and extremely dangerous.
That is why we got rid of them in most places.
Then people forgot; the Mediacracy insisted all the old knowledge was wrong; they were just big fuzzy gentle humans, but morally superior to us.
Now neo-pagans are insisting on re-inserting them into our society because of Gaia worship.
We are learning the old knowledge was correct.