Yosemite Sam is the only ‘Y’ Looney Tunes character in the series.  His name is taken from Yosemite National Park.  Yosemite is a hothead, a real grouch-puss.  He’s depicted as a gun slinging cowboy, prospector, or outlaw and is rather short in stature but that’s not all he’s short in.  His hair trigger temper gets torqued over his hatred of rabbits, in particular for none other than Bugs Bunny.  The first short Yosemite appeared in was Hare Trigger (1945).  In this short, Yosemite is an outlaw, a very very short outlaw.  I laughed as the train he tries to rob…