THESE FOREIGNER BEARS BEGOT "SAMSON" HEBREW FOR "BRIGHT AS THE SUN", BUT SAMSON WASN'T ALL THAT BRIGHT, NOR WAS HE THE FIRST SAMSON GRIZZLY ADAMS RAISED AN ORPHANED GRIZZLY CUB HE NAMED SAMSON MR. ADAMS HAD SHOT HIS MOTHER
DIM WITTED TOOTHLESS SAMSON MOVED TO THE MONROVIA SUBURBS WHERE HE HUNG OUT IN A HOT TUB AND LATER BECAME ILL AFTER EATING A PLASTIC BAG
GIVEN A REPRIEVE OF EXECUTION FROM GOVERNOR PETE WILSON, SAMSON BECAME A CELEBRITY. HE LIVED OUT HIS LIFE IN RELATIVE SPLENDOR AT THE SANTA ANA ZOO. THE SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS ARE WHERE THE LAST NATIVE GRIZZLY BEAR OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WAS SHOT DEAD
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The artist who created the Samson Monument remains unknown. Enquiries were made but went unanswered.
What we seem to love to do is conquer them, then embarrass them into cuteness. The plaque about the "hot tub bear" is so cynical and ironic it would make me laugh if I didn't have tears in my eyes.
Petrea,
Oh so true! Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was in president during the last stand of the California Grizzly. I think we named a bear after him, "Teddy"
I tried to find out the name of the artist but all I could get was that he now lives in Oregon somewhere.
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