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The Saga of Hugh Glass – Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man
Deep in the medicine bag of every nation is the tale of a warrior pitted against a beast of dread proportions. In the lore of America, this alpha of epics takes the form of struggle between a mountain man called Hugh Glass and an outsized grizzly. The different turn taken by the story of Hugh, though, is that the duel itself is of less moment than his feat of surviving, after being abandoned in the wilderness by men who were sure his watch couldn’t be wound again.
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The Saga of Hugh Glass – Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man
Before his most fabulous adventure, Hugh Glass was captured by the buccaneer Jean Lafitte and turned pirate himself until his first chance to escape. Soon he fell prisoner to the Pawnees and lived for four years as one of them before he managed to make his way to St. Louis. Next he joined a group of trappers to open up the fur-rich, Indian-held territory of the Upper Missouri River. Then unfolds the legend of a man who survived under impossible conditions: robbed and left to die by his comrades, he struggled alone, unarmed, and almost mortally wounded through two thousand miles of wilderness.
ISBN: 978-0-8032-5834-1
237 Pages
Softback
5 1/4″ x 8″
University of Nebraska Press, 1963