Definition of Hero

A 39-year-old hunter killed by a wounded grizzly bear yelled out to draw the 400-pound male bear toward him in an effort to keep it from attacking his young hunting partner, the man's family said.

"They both shot it and it kept coming," Steve Stevenson's mom, Janet Price, said on Saturday. "Steve yelled at it to try and distract it, and it swung around and took him down. It's what my son would have done automatically, for anybody."

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office in Montana said Stevenson, of Winnemucca, Nev., died Friday after 20-year-old Ty Bell wounded what he thought was a black bear and the two men tracked it into thick cover along the Idaho-Montana border where it attacked at about 10 a.m. Friday.

I'd like to think I would do the right thing, the helpful thing. But it takes some marbles to distract a 400 lb. animal and draw it to you to save another person. Steve Stevenson did the right thing and paid the ultimate price for it. He died a hero's death, but I hope it inspires people to remember the dangers of the woods, and the humanity we bring to it.