Struggles and Triumphs by P.T. Barnum — Read

A Remarkable Character -- Old Grizzly Adams -- The California Menagerie -- Terribly Wounded by Bears -- My Uptown Show -- Extraordinary Will and Vigor -- A Lesson for Munchausen -- The California Golden Pigeons -- Pigeons of All Colors -- Process of Their Creation -- M. Guillaudeu -- A Naturalist Deceived -- The Most Wonderful Birds in the World -- The Curiosities Transferred to the Menagerie -- Old Adams Taken In -- A Change of Color -- Motley the Only Wear -- Old Grizzly Undeceived -- Tour of the Bear-Tamer Through the Country -- A Beautiful Hunting Suit -- A Life and Death Struggle for a Wager -- Old Adams Wins -- His Death -- The Last Joke on Barnum -- The Prince of Wales Visits the Museum -- I Call on the Prince in Boston -- Stephen A. Douglas -- "Before and After" in a Barber Shop -- How Tom Higginson "Did" Barnum -- The Museum Flourishing.

I was now fairly embarked on board the good old ship American Museum, to try once more my skill as captain, and to see what fortune the voyage would bring me. Curiosities began to pour into the Museum halls, and I was eager for enterprises in the show line, whether as part of the Museum itself, or as outside accessories or accompaniments. Among the first to give me a call, with attractions sure to prove a success, was James C. Adams, of hard-earned, grizzly-bear fame. This extraordinary man was eminently what is called "a character. " He was universally known as "Grizzly Adams," from the fact that he had captured a great many grizzly bears, at the risk and cost of fearful encounters and perils. He was brave, and with his bravery there was enough of the romantic in his nature to make him a real hero. For many years a hunter and trapper in the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains, he acquired a recklessness, which, added to his natural invincible courage, rendered him one of the most striking men of the age, and he was emphatically a man of pluck. A month after I had repurchased the Museum, he arrived in New York with his famous collection of California animals, captured by himself, consisting of twenty or thirty immense grizzly bears, at the head of which stood "Old Sampson," together with several wolves, half a dozen different species of California bears, California lions, tigers, buffalo, elk, and "Old Neptune," the great sea-lion from the Pacific.