In 2015 a film called The Revenant was released, about a man who was attacked by a bear and left for dead by his fellow trappers in a harsh, empty landscape. The ferocity of the bear was violent, graphic and intense and all based on a true story. The story of Hugh Glass, a larger than life American hero who survived impossible odds, facing starvation, death and violence, but managed to tell his tale. 

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Sources

https://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.fol.020.html (the fur trade)

https://www.americanhistorycentral.com

https://portablepress.com/blog/2015/12/tale-hugh-glass/

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/msn/01the-story-of-hugh-glass-the-man-who-inspired-the-revenant.html

hughglass.org

https://secretireland.ie/hugh-glass-the-irish-american-legend-who-defied-death-and-defined-survival/

https://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/stories/history-and-culture/pigments-of-the-fur-trade/

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/673475/summaryhttps://hughglass.org/pirate-and-pawnee/

https://hughglass.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Glass-story-by-Crook.pdf

https://hughglass.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1825-Hugh-Glass-article.pdf

https://hughglass.org/mountain-man/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/fur-trade/

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/mountain-men/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/03/23/leonardo-dicaprio-making-revenant/?msockid=1abccfa2e0bf68692709da6fe119695a&ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first

https://hughglass.org/later-life/