59-year-old Steven Bartley says he fought the bear before it ran away. He spent two days in a Cody hospital for his injuries. Bartley said it felt like, "This shoulder was going to come out of its socket."

Bartley came to Cody in an ambulance Thursday morning. He's still recovering from the bear attack that happened as he slept in his tent near Cooke City. He says the bear bumped his head, then his back, and has he unzipped the tent, it bit his hand. He said, "Grabbed it and I'm screaming and yelling at that point, Bear! And this hand I'm trying to hit whatever it is trying to get into the tent. Still I'm going it's gotta be a bear. I can't see it. I'm going to do whatever I can to survive. And it grabbed my other hand, grabbed this hand that was hitting it. "

Bartley suffered a bad break in his right hand, and multiple bites in both hands. It could have been worse. He explained, "The second time he grabbed this right hand, and I felt the crunching, there was a twisting and a pulling as if he was trying to get me out of the tent."

Montana officials think the attacking bear was probably a grizzly. The man who developed a new museum exhibit on human grizzly conflicts says the attack on Bartley was probably predatory, and rare. So why did the bear come after Bartley in his tent?

Dr. Charles Preston says there's a real possibility the bear had gotten a food reward from someone else and has learned to associate humans with food, and does not have a particular fear of human smell. Bartley has lived in bear country, and he put all of his gear in the camp food storage box. If he found out that he was attacked because someone else before him failed to store his or hers, he said, "That would make me really, really upset. I think that we're in a bear's habitat when we're camping in a situation like that when we're in a national forest or anywhere that there are bears and it's incumbent upon campers to take every precaution they can not to attract bears to a campsite."

In spite of the bear attack, Bartley said he loves Montana and will visit the Yellowstone region again.