Other / Unknown · Sedalia, Missouri · 1884

MO-1884ID case-6c7852f37bFallback locationAdded to map Nov 9, 2026

The account

Mr. [name] reports his daughter was taken by a bear in the Grand valley but survived because the bear protected her.

See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet

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Creature: Other / Unknown
Where: Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: Feb 5, 1884
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Nov 9, 2026
Case id: case-6c7852f37b

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Image 2 of The Sedalia weekly bazoo (Sedalia, Mo.), February 12, 1884
Newspaper · 1884-02-12
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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