Rose Flanders Bascom, born in Contoocook (a village of Hopkinton), Merrimack County, New Hampshire, in 1880, was the first American woman lion tamer, who performed in the circus in the early 1900s.

Rose Flanders Bascom
Born1880
Died1915
OccupationLion tamer
SpouseAlfred Bascom
Rose Bascom with Lions
Rose and Tiger, circa 1914

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.[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Lion Tamers - Central Michigan University". cmich.edu. Retrieved 27 September 2015.