Rose Flanders Bascom

Rose Flanders Bascom
Born	1880 Contoocook, New Hampshire
Died	1915
Occupation	First American woman lion tamer
Spouse(s)	Alfred Bascom

Rose Flanders Bascom with lions

Rose Flanders Bascom, born in Contoocook, New Hampshire, in 1880, was the first American woman lion tamer who performed 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.^[1]

References

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