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John Boyden Adams (also known as James Capen Adams and Grizzly Adams) (October 22, 1812 – October 25, 1860) was a famous California mountain man and trainer of grizzly bears and other wild animals he captured for menageries, zoological gardens and circuses.
Sep 26, 2022 · In order to invent a legendary hero of the Wild West, John Adams shook himself free from his life as shoemaker in Massachusetts.
Feb 7, 2024 · John “Grizzly” Adams was a western mountain-man legend, a man who earned his name by training grizzly bears in the California wilderness.
- Austin Harvey
A western mountain-man legend, Grizzly Adams’ birth name was ‘John Capen Adams’ when he was born in Medway, Massachusetts in 1812. He was the second eldest of seven siblings who grew up in a rural farm household run by his father and mother, Eleazer and Sibel Adams.
In the spring of 1855, while on a hunting trip in the Sierra, the bear cub Benjamin Franklin would save John’s life when a mother grizzly attacked Adams. The she-bear knocked his rifle from his hands, tore his scalp loose, dented his skull in one powerful swipe, and bit into his neck.
Oct 18, 2019 · John “Grizzly” Adams, an amazingly eccentric shoe salesman turned mountain man/animal trainer. Grizzly Adams was born in 1812 in Massachusetts and was a relative of our second and sixth presidents, John Adams and John Quincy Adams. He was also related to Samuel Adams, the Revolutionary War patriot.
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Jan 23, 2018 · Each day in California grizzlies were killing hunters, ranchers and livestock; many people considered them no-good natural-born killers. But the bearded, buckskin-clad man regarded them differently. His name was Grizzly Adams, and bears were his business.
