The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer Adams Grizzly Bear Hunter of California (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Hittell, Theodore H.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer Adams Grizzly Bear Hunter of California A statement of the circumstances under which I wrote "The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California," may be not uninteresting. In the early part of October, 1856, while in charge of the local department of the Daily Evening Bulletin newspaper of San Francisco, California, my attention was attracted to a small placard at the door of a basement on the south side of Clay, near Leidesdorff, Street. It announced the exhibition there of "The Mountaineer Museum" - a collection of wild animals of the Pacific Coast, the principal of which were "Samson, the largest Grizzly Bear ever caught, weighing over 1500 pounds, Lady Washington (with her cub), weighing 1000 pounds, and Benjamin Franklin, King of the Forest." Descending the stairway, I found a remarkable spectacle. The basement was a large one but with a low ceiling, and dark and dingy in appearance. In the middle, chained to the floor, were two large grizzly bears, which proved to be Benjamin Franklin and Lady Washington. They were pacing restlessly in circles some ten feet in diameter, their chains being about five feet long, and occasionally rearing up, rattling their irons, and reversing their direction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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