The Historic Grizzly

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In the early spring of 1854, Grizzly Adams and a Mr. Solon of Sonora traveled through Yosemite Valley and discovered a grizzly den. Adams shot the bear and heard whimpering inside. He crawled into the den and came out with two tiny cubs, sightless and probably only a week old. Adams named the cubs General Jackson and Ben Franklin. A greyhound in the party was nursing a litter of pups, so Adams had the grizzly cubs suckle on the dog. 
Later that year, Adams took a trip east of the Sierra Nevada through Nevada and Utah seeking wild animals to kill and trap. While he was camped in the mountains, Lady Washington was visited several nights by a Rocky Mountain grizzly. Though tempted to kill the interloper, Adams held off as long as Lady Washington showed no indication of leaving with the big male. His hunch paid off, for the next year Lady Washington gave birth to a single cub that Adams named Fremont. Reply