.... And now Grizzly Adams is gone.

[crashdown]

Grizzly Adams was my favorite show by far as a kid.
That show planted the seed for me wanting to live in the wild.
I'm walking over to the bank in 30 minutes to wire transfer 95K for a down-payment on a home that is on the edge of the wilderness.
I will be going back at noon to sign the closing documents.
Grizzly Adams died this morning.

[Ah Pook]

Rough week for icons.

Jeromia Johnson was fav as a kid. Grizzly Adams was a close second.

[TFOGGER]

Jeebus, they're dropping like interns at Clinton's Cigar Bar...

RIP, Mr Haggerty.

[clodhopper]

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[Zundfolge]

Sad to hear he's dead ... but to be honest he's one of those celebs that when you hear they've died you're like "I thought they died years ago?" ... maybe I'm thinking of the bear.

[TheGrey]

No! I used to watch that show religiously as a kid.

God, January is a HARD month. :(

[SamuraiCO]

Or our icons are all about our age and we are seeing them drop. The wife and I were commenting on how many 50th anniversary events were this year.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I loved Grizzly Adams, far more than Jeremiah Johnson, but the TV show was more kid-friendly. I actually tape-recorded the end song because (to my knowledge) it was never released as a full song but it was such a sweet melody and had such poetic structure. I still (sort of) have it memorized ...

Deep inside the forest is a door into another land,
Here I'll make my life and home
I am staying here forever in the beauty of this place
All alone

And I keep on hoping ...
Maybe there's a world where we don't have to run and
Maybe there's a time to call our own
Living free in harmony and majesty

Take me home, take me home.
Take me home, take me home.

Grizzly Adams has gone home.

[Angel2]

[Salute]

[Ah Pook]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FjeIeUQtT8

[wctriumph]

Hans Gruber and now Grizzly Adams.

RIP guys, you put in a great effort and we'll miss you.

[Erni]

Heaven must be in need of some badasses.

RIP

[Gman]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/the-life-and-times-of-grizzly-adams-star-dan-haggerty-dies-at-74/ar-BBofqQK?li=BBnb7Kz

I found this entertaining...

Haggerty was an animal trainer before he was an actor.

In 1978, Diane Rooker, Haggerty's wife at the time, told PEOPLE (http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20069991,00.html) he had "no appetite for Hollywood life."

"We've had the same friends for years," she added.

Haggerty also told PEOPLE about the time "Otis Chandler, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, invited me to his house and then took me into his den to see the huge bear he'd shot and had stuffed."

Haggerty continued, "I told him: 'Hell, any jacka-- can point a gun at something and kill it. I got a bear that's bigger than yours, and he rides around in the truck with me.'"

[Buff]

I saw him at Shot Show last year at a booth signing autographs and just hanging out.

[pickenup]

Sad times.

[ben4372]

Lots of childhood heroes seem to be leaving us. Good thing Chuck Norris has his beard to keep him safe. That one would hurt.