FRED BEAR, THE BIOGRAPHY OF AN OUTDOORSMAN
By Charles Kroll

FORWARD

PAPA BEAR
By John Mitchell

If Fred Bear had been born a hundred years earlier, he might have been one of the mountain men scouting the Rockies on hunting and trapping expeditions.  He could have been one of Jim Bridger's or Kit Carson's men, or, more likely, he might have crossed the Cumberland Gap with Daniel Boone.  If he'd been born in Quebec in the early days, he would have been a voyager roaming the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, and the Northwest Territories.

He was born too late for all that, but not for pioneering in the field that he himself did much to establish.  In moving to the peak of success in his vocation and avocation, this shy farm boy became part of the great American tradition of free enterprise and the self-made man.

Over the past 50 years or more, literally hundreds of articles have been written about Fred Bear.  They have appeared in small local newspapers with circulation in the hundreds and in major national magazines reaching millions.

Bibliography: Fred Bear: Biography of and Outdoorsman