The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams was not only a novel but also a Movie, a two-season NBC TV series, and a final TV movie. It was also loosely based on the actual trapper named James "Grizzly" Adams who was a famous California mountain man that trained grizzly bears and other wild animals. In the movie and TV series Grizzly Adams is played by...
View MoreThe Life and Times of Grizzly Adams was not only a novel but also a Movie, a two-season NBC TV series, and a final TV movie. It was also loosely based on the actual trapper named James "Grizzly" Adams who was a famous California mountain man that trained grizzly bears and other wild animals. In the movie and TV series Grizzly Adams is played by Dan Haggerty, think Kenny Rogers but with more wavy hair. Ol' Adams is wrongly accused of murder and takes off to the mountains, finds an orphaned grizzly bear cub that he takes under his care and calls Ben. Not to be confused with the other bear named Ben in the 1960's TV show Gentle Ben with the little kid Clint Howard (who just so happens to be Ron Howard's brother) who's dad was a park ranger in the Everglades and traveled around in an airboat, which just so happens to be one of the coolest vehicles ever invented which skims over water and green leafy foilage using a six foot properler for a propulsion system. The airboat is such a cool contraption that even Jonny Quest used it in "Alligators and Okeechobee Vikings," which was an awesome cartoon, but sadly, had no grizzly bears in it. Here's a piece of trivia we bet you didn't know. Grizzly Adams had two human friends, one was Uncle Jesse from the Dukes of Hazzard, the other was a native American named Nakoma (Don Shanks) who was none other than Michael Myers in Halloween 5. Freaky. Maybe if you wore one of our Grizzly Adams t-shirts you could go out and get your own grizzly bear and if you manage to be lucky enough to not turn yourself into a quick appetizer for said Ursus arctos horribilis and live longer than 2 minutes, you just might be able to get on TV and possibly drive an airboat of your own.
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