From the Coalora Coal Mines to Smokey Bear
by
Gary Cozzens
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
In early May 1950 a massive forest fire spread through the Capitan Gap in the Capitan Mountains. A young black bear cub was found clinging to a tree with his paws singed and his mother nowhere in sight. That cub, later named Smokey Bear, was doctored and eventually sent to Washington, D. C. where he...