Many years ago the Late and Great Fred Rungee saw a "large long tailed cat" cross Nabesna Road, an elderly resident in Tazlina told the story of people that shoved burning sticks into holes in the cliffs by Chistochina and speared "long tailed monkeys" that came out.
Actually lions don't seem that aggressive, in NE I knew several guys that walked around unarmed and saw lions from their house as well as kills within 100 yards, I invented a list of "The most likely citizens to be killed by lions" but it hasn't happened ....yet.