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The Grizzly Book by Jack Samson.

San Francisco was aswarm with odd characters and filled with strange sites during the second half of the last century; nothing seemed capable of surprising its citizenry much. Yet when in the fall of 1856, a tall, gray-bearded man took to strolling down the streets with a grizzly bear or two trailing at his heels like obedient dogs, the free-wheeling city took immediate notice. They soon learned that the man's name was James Adams, and they began to flock to a dingy basement on Clay Street where he exhibited chained grizzlies and elk in a stall, as well as wolves, foxes, cougars, and other wild creatures. The most imposing resident of the menagerie was Samson, a 1,510 pound grizzly which Adams billed as the largest bear ever caught.

A Solitary Beast by Michael Jenkinson. Reply