215: Monarch the Grizzly Bear - Western Neighborhoods Project - San Francisco History

215: Monarch the Grizzly Bear

The story of a grizzly captured, and later kept in Golden Gate Park, who was the model for the state flag.

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215: Monarch the Grizzly Bear

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