Image / [Bear fight scene with Grizzly (John Capen) Adams]

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Title: [Bear fight scene with Grizzly (John Capen) Adams]
Creator: Hittell, Charles [Carlos] J. (1861-1938), American, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Four men (trappers?) with Bowie knives and revolver attack bear. Second bear lies dead nearby and another bear and man lie on ground near the foot of tree. Margins show working marks and small sketches of hands (with or without revolver), figures, and bear.
Supplied title. Handwritten (UR): Bear claws/old Remington rev./bowie knife/old Kentucky/moccasins. Charles Hittell's father published a book about Grizzly Adams; this image closely resembles the images of Adams in that book.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: pencil and ink 24.5 x 33.4 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6j49p543
BANC PIC 1963.002:1062--A
Subject: Animals
Arms & armaments
Bears
Clothing & dress
Hunting

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