Rose Flanders Bascom, born in
Contoocook (a village of
Hopkinton),
Merrimack County, New Hampshire in 1880, was the first
American
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woman
lion tamer
Lion taming is the taming and training of lions, either for protection or for use in entertainment, such as the circus. The term often applies to the taming and display of lions and other big cats such as tigers, leopards, jaguars, black pa ...
, who performed in the circus in the early 1900s.
In 1898 she married Alfred Bascom who was of
French Canadian ancestry but born in the United States. About 1905, Rose joined the circus life and became a lion tamer.
It is reported that she was clawed by a lion resulting in an infection that led to her untimely death around the year of 1915. She left behind her husband and their young daughter Agnes.
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1880 births
1915 deaths
American circus performers
Lion tamers
People from Hopkinton, New Hampshire
Deaths due to lion attacks