Some folks say she tracked it, went after it. Some folks say it was Dave Auger, Twin’s companion that killed the bear. The story has developed some inconsistencies. Can you imagine devoting your entire professional life to pursuing big bears? Your street cred is tied to yours and your client trophies and your recent world record gets bested by a quiet lady with a. The closer you get to the story the more interesting it gets. (If only for a very short time thanks to Twin’s Cooey Ace, calm demeanor, and marksmanship.) Reinhold Eben Ebenau––Roland’s father––acquired the skull and this remains a part of the Eben-Ebenau family museum on the Northshore Homestead Ranch (in Northern Alberta where Roland still raises bison. Too, I interviewed Roland Eben-Ebenau, the son of professional bear guide and world record holder on his own right. Bella was technically Larry’s great aunt, Kokum to Larry. (Note: in Cree Culture your mother’s sister or your great aunt is referred to as your Kokum (grandmother) too. I talked to Constance Brissenden, wife of Larry Loyie who was “grandson” of Bella Twin. This story has been one of the most enjoyable research projects I have engaged in my whole life. At that very moment, I began to understand Bella Twin’s amazing story.ĭid I mention to you the grizzly bear held the Boone and Crocket world record at 26 5/16 inches? That record was in place for some time. Provenance means the history of an object and is tied up with the story that can be told about the object. “This one is priceless, because of its provenance. “Well, the gun is worth nothing,” I said. I knew it was a trap question, but I answered anyway. “What’s do you think this gun is worth? Worman asked. The bolt was so rusted the action wouldn’t work. The wooden gun stock was well-worn and broken, attached to the barrelled action with hockey tape. A white-gloved curator, Anthony Worman, drew a rusty, beat-up Cooey Ace #1 single-shot from a special case. She would have wanted neither the additional velocity nor the additional cost.įor me, this story started at the Royal Museum of Alberta in downtown Edmonton where I was doing a piece on the value of firearms for the Canadian Firearms Journal. 22 Long Rife rounds were more expensive––just speculating here. A trapper neither needed nor wanted the extra velocity of the Long Rife rimfire rounds for two reasons: undamaged pelts bring a premium dollar, and. I’ll bet a crisp fifty-dollar bill that they were. 22 rimfire ammunition while trapping, was, well, let’s say, unlikely. In 1953, the likelihood of a trapper using Long Rifle. There has been a lot of speculation over the intervening years about what exactly happened that day there on the trapline. The bear dropped dead, but because Twin knew what she was up against––put seven more rounds into the bear skull––seven insurance shots. 22 rimfire round through the eye of a grizzly bear at close distance. That was seven years before my dad held me for the first time, a five-foot-nothing woman who lived on the land squeezed the trigger on her single-shot rabbit gun and put a. That was near Slave Lake, Alberta, and the bear Twin killed turned out to be a world record that stood for a good long time. May 10, 1957, she killed a massive grizzly bear with her Cooey Ace #1. Bella Twin was a calm, quiet, clear-headed Cree woman with a trap line.
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