John "Grizzly" Adams
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.
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"Grizzly" Adams, with his grizzly bear, Benjamin Franklin, from the 1860 Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine | |
| Born | John Boyden Adams October 22, 1812 Medway, Massachusetts, US |
| Died | October 25, 1860 (aged 48) Neponset, Boston, formerly Suffolk County, Massachusetts, US |
| Other names | James Capen Adams |
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| Known for | his love of grizzly bears and performing with the trained bears in the circus |
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