The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man

The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man
by John Myers Myers

The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man
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Author: John Myers Myers
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1976-03-01
ISBN: 0803258348
Number of pages: 237
Publisher: Bison Books

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Book Review: Hugh Glass: Elevated to immortality by a grizzly bear
Summary: 5 Stars


Sometimes all it takes is a single spectacular event to catapult a man into the sphere of immortality. That's what happened to Hugh Glass, thanks to a grizzly bear.

Little is known about Glass's life up to the time he joined William Ashley's first expedition up the Missouri River in 1823. Rumor had it that he was a pirate with Jean Lafite, but it can't be substantiated. After being wounded by the Arikaras in 1823, he went with Andrew Henry's party overland to the Yellowstone River.

It was on this trip that destiny struck. He was attacked and mauled badly by a grizzly bear; two other mountain men, John Fitzgerald and James Bridger, were left with him to tend him in what everyone assumed would be his final hours. But the two men abandoned Glass before his time had come, and Glass held on to life alone. Somehow he crawled 300 miles down the Grand River, living on berries and buffalo carcasses left by wolves, eventually reaching Fort Kiowa on the Missouri.

After recovering from his wounds, Glass set off on a trail of revenge. He ventured to Fort Henry where he suspected Fitzgerald and Bridger to be, only to find the place deserted. More death-defying traipsing resulted until he tracked down Bridger on the Big Horn River; learning that Bridger was only 20 years old, he Glass decided to forgive him. He also learned that Fitzgerald had gone into the army and was beyond his reach. Disappointed in these results, little did he realize that a legend had been born.

During subsequent years Glass trapped throughout the West, being wounded again in an Indian attack near Bear Lake and thereafter became a hunter for Fort Union (ND). Sometime in the winter of 1832-33 he, along with two other men, was killed by Indians on the Yellowstone River.

The accomplishments of other mountain men far outweighed Glass's, but it was his encounter with that grizzly and his incredible survival of the mauling that assured his name would be added to the pantheon of Western heroes. Frederick Manfred wrote a book-length poem based on Glass's feat, but this book by Myers is broader in scope and fuller in detail. There is a long introductory chapter on the legendary aspect of Hugh Glass that places him in the scheme of things. Myers is an excellent writer, but the book contains no footnotes (annotation of some kind would be useful) and no index. Other than that, the book is a Western classic and will be enjoyed by anyone interested in this legendary character or in the fur trade period of the early West. Highly recommended.

Summary of The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man

Before his most fabulous adventure (celebrated by John G. Neihardt in The Song of Hugh Glass and by Frederick Manfred in Lord Grizzly), 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.

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