About Hugh Glass. 1833 American frontiersman and fur trapper who became a folk hero after surviving a bear attack and then traveling hundreds of miles alone to safety. He purportedly escaped by swimming to shore near what is today Galveston Texas.
Hugh Glass in his role as a hired hunter was some distance in front of the group searching for game along the brushy river bottom when he encountered a sow grizzly bear with two cubs. Most is conjecture including his marriage to a Native American woman with whom he supposedly fell in love after being captured by and living with Pawnee Indians for several years. Heres what we know about the historical Glass.
Wikimedia Commons Hugh Glass escaping a grizzly bear.
He immediately stumbled upon a sow grizzly and her two cubs. At least what they could make out through the blood which was everywhere. In 1816 he was reportedly captured off the coast of Texas by pirates commanded by Jean Lafitte and forced into piracy for two years. Then he began his revenge.
