"How can you not love this story?" – Montana wrangler, horse who saved boy ride into national spotlight

When a plucky wrangler and her lion-hearted steed hazed a charging grizzly bear away from an 8-year-old boy this summer, the unlikely duo trotted out of a remote corner of Montana and into the national spotlight.

Their stardom grew each time the harrowing tale was recounted in the news media, and peaked in October with a guest appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman," who introduced the pair by exclaiming, "How can you not love this story?"

By TRISTAN SCOTT of the Missoulian

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