“Playmakers,” reviewed: The race to give every child a toy

( Describing a bear )

“A tracker caught one for him, bopped it on the head with his rifle, and tied it to a tree.“

Everything the writer said after that was questionable to me. Maybe too flippant just once, I wonder how much actual truth was in every sentence.

That was the story that was current back then, at least the tying to a tree part. It may have been invented, but not by the New Yorker writer.

There's no content there for me but I'm curious. Perhaps someone can paste the content?

Did you check the archive.ph link?

As a child, I could play wit sticks and stones