Exhibit item:
OWEN COCHRAN COY
Photograph of first Bear Flag, 1846
Pictorial History of California, 1925

Quotation:
TRACY I. STORER AND LLOYD P. TEVIS
"The California Grizzly," Pacific Discovery, 1953

"General Vallejo, perhaps still smarting from his experiences during the Bear Flag Rebellion, did not approve of an unrestrained bear. He argued that if the bear were to be kept on the Seal, it should be represented as secured firmly by a lasso in the hands of a Spanish-Californian vaquero."