Yosemite Sam is a cartoon character in the
Looney Tunes and
Merrie Melodies series of short films produced by Warner Bros. His name is taken from Yosemite National Park. He is an adversary of Bugs Bunny. He is commonly depicted as an extremely aggressive, gunslinging outlaw or cowboy with a hair-trigger temper and an intense hatred of rabbits, Bugs in particular. In cartoons with non-Western themes, he uses various aliases, including "Chilkoot Sam" and "Square-deal Sam" in
14 Carrot Rabbit, "Riff Raff Sam" in
Sahara Hare, "Sam Schultz" in
Big House Bunny, "Seagoin' Sam" in
Buccaneer Bunny, "Shanghai Sam" in
Mutiny on the Bunny, "Von Schamm the Hessian" in
Bunker Hill Bunny, "Baron Sam von Schpamm" in
Dumb Patrol, and many others. During the golden age of American animation, Yosemite Sam appeared in 33 shorts made between 1945 and 1964.