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Sometimes the Bear Gets You

by | Feb 20, 2018 | True West Blog

Grizzly Adams Illustration
There was a real-life Grizzly Adams (but very different from the 1970s TV character).  John Adams was born in Massachusetts in 1812 and went West for the California Gold Rush.  After failing at a number of trades, he began training and showing grizzly bears. But a wild bear put an end to things.  Adams was attacked in the California Sierras in 1855, suffering severe head and neck injur


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