The last grizz in Siskiyou County Calif was killed in the spring of 1890, very close to the town of Hornbrook on I-5. Old Reelfoot, as he was known had chalked up a score of 500 cattle by then, and the ranchers had upped the bounty to the incredible sum of 2,700 dollars. Two hunters by name of Bean and Wright did the deed and got the reward. Bean and Wright sold the carcass, a taxidermist did a terrible job of stuffing the bear, loaded it in a big ore wagon and hauled it around the area...gawkers were charged a dime, and the taxidermist would pull off the tarp for their viewing pleasure. At the time they did not weigh the carcass, but some ranchers "string weighed" it and figured it 1500 to 1800 pounds. As a schoolkid we went to the county museum, and the claws from the foot damaged in a steel trap a few years earlier, were the size of a small hay hook...or so I recall...grin.
