Grizzly Adams – Reimagined by The Grizzly Adams® Company
American Spirit – American Legend
Grizzly Adams
The legacy of “California’s Greatest Mountain Man” recalls the adventurous, courageous spirit Grizzly Adams was recognized for and the glorious landscape of the American West that he helped to settle.
In 2018, Adventure Outdoors Magazine recognized ‘Grizzly Adams’ as one of the three greatest American outdoorsmen of all time along with Buffalo Bill Cody and Ernest Hemingway. The real “Grizzly Adams,” whose true name was John Capen [J. C.] Adams (1812-1860), challenged conventional norms and nature’s untamed wildlife after turning his back on the greed-driven society born from the California Gold Rush — that left him blazing a trail into the wildest parts of the Sierra Nevada, and stopping not too far from the great Yosemite Valley. Once there he built himself a sturdy cabin, he made friends and traded with Native Americans, and he forged unique companionships among some of nature’s untamed beasts that included a number of grizzly bears. In short, he single handedly tamed one of the wildest environments the American west landscape offered.
His larger than life exploits made the name ‘Grizzly Adams’ a worldwide recognized icon. The moniker evokes images not only of buckskin clad men with burly beards, but of what it takes to be a resilient, self-reliant survivalist, and one who is accepted by nature’s wildlife denizens.
The Grizzly Adams® Company honors and celebrates the independence-seeking, nature loving American soul the name ‘Grizzly Adams’ represents that so many people admire and strive to emulate.
Grizzly Adams – Reimagined
The North American grizzly has lost 98% of its habitat south of Canada
Become a conservation hero
The Grizzly Adams® Company is honored to serve as a business partner of The Vital Ground Foundation, a charitable 501(c)3 organization and an accredited land trust working to ensure a future for grizzly bears and other wildlife. Vital Ground conserves and connects landscapes for remaining grizzly populations by purchasing properties and working with willing landowners to implement conservation protections.
Help us protect the wild walkways of our world. For grizzlies. For all walks of life. Forever.
Pop Culture
Grizzly Adams® currently represents new feature film and television IPs drawn from the exploits of the real Grizzly Adams, whose mountain-man life inspired a popular motion picture and TV series. “Grizzly Adams” became a household name after NBC’s, “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams” TV series established new Thursday night record-ratings for the network in the late 1970s. Even so, today few people realize there was a real “Grizzly Adams” who migrated to the Sierra Nevada mountains to escape the confines of civilization after participating in the great California Gold Rush.
The IP’s new Grizzly Adams stories expound on his experiences, who western historians refer to as “The Greatest California Mountain Man Ever.” Not bad for a guy who started out as a down-on-his-luck Boston shoe cobbler.
The term GRIZZLY ADAMS is a registered trademark of The Grizzly Adams® Company.
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