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Girl and a bear in frontier tale of courage
Beatrice Merrill, newly married, braves a frontier bear scare at Last Limit. She locks the bear in the cellar, arms herself with a rifle and ax, then is hailed a heroine by her husband David Merrill and a crowd of cowboys who reward her with applause and $100 for the harmless circus bear.
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Gertrude Mary Sheridan
Netta Forbes
David
Beatrice Merrill
Netta
Beatrice
David Merrill
Nature
Rancho
God’s Land
Buckskin Joe
W. G. Chapman