where did the name grizzly bear come from
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title: California grizzly bear text: inspired betting as to whether the bear or the bull would win. One persistently popular, but false phrase origin story related to these fights stems from famous 19th century newspaper man Horace Greeley. While visiting California Greeley allegedly witnessed such a fight, and supposedly gave the modern stock market its "bear" and "bull" nicknames based on the fighting styles of the two animals: the bear swipes downward while the bull hooks upward. In truth, the phrase’s origins predate Greeley’s 1859 journey to California by at least 100 years, but the myth of the California connection persists. In 1866, a grizzly title: John "Grizzly" Adams text: John "Grizzly" Adams John "Grizzly" Adams (also known as James Capen Adams and Grizzly Adams) (1812–1860) was a famous California mountain man and trainer of grizzly bears and other wild animals he captured for menageries, zoological gardens and circuses. In the 1970s the motion picture "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" starring Dan Haggerty was released. An NBC TV series of the same name starring Haggerty followed. Grizzly Adams was of English ancestry. Born and raised in Medway, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, he received little to no education. Adams began as an apprentice in the footwear manufacturing industry title: California grizzly bear text: bear described as weighing as much as was killed in what is present day Valley Center, California. The incident was recalled in 1932 by Catherine E. Lovett Smith, and it was biggest bear ever found in California. Lovett Smith witnessed the bear’s killing on her family’s ranch when she was six years old. (Other sources confirm her account of the bear, but differ as to its exact size.) Her telling of that bear is part of the oral history of “Bear Valley,” the original name for Valley Center. Less than 75 years after the discovery of gold in 1848, almost title: California grizzly bear text: Alaska. In California, it was particularly admired for its beauty, size and strength. The grizzly became a symbol of the Bear Flag Republic, a moniker that was attached to the short-lived attempt by a group of American settlers to break away from Mexico in 1846. Later, this rebel flag became the basis for the state flag of California, and then California was known as the "Bear State." A 1953 researcher stated, "The specific status of North American brown bears (or grizzly bears) is one of the most complex problems of mammalian taxonomy. The difficulty stems directly from the work of title: Grizzly bear text: black bear's measure about 1–2 inches in length. Brown bears are found in Asia, Europe, and North America, giving them the widest ranges of bear species. They also inhabited North Africa and the Middle East. In North America, grizzly bears previously ranged from Alaska down to Mexico and as far east as the western shores of Hudson Bay; the species is now found in Alaska, south through much of western Canada, and into portions of the northwestern United States (including Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming), extending as far south as Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. It is most commonly