ON BEAR-ROPING Anyone who has spent a good deal of their life outside in northern New Mexico usually has a few tales to tell about bears. One of the last Grizzlies sighted in New Mexico was on a ranch just outside Angel Fire. And then there’s the tale about a local guide getting bit on the butt by a black bear. Local Kay Moore remembers that at the family’s Black Lake ranch sometime in the 1930s, her father Bruce Bull loved hunting on horseback, his greyhounds coming along to keep him company and help with the hunt. They came up on a black bear which was then treed by the dogs. Bruce then roped the bear and decided to drag it home. At the house he yelled to his mother to come out and see what he’d brought her. Continue reading on website: www.angelfirefun.com/story4
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