The Colorado History Gazette

Volume 15 Grand River, , August, 1823

HUGH GLASS, NOT ENOUGH TO STOP ITS CHARGE. THE GRIZZLY MAULED GLASS TO SUCH AN EXTENT, ONE OF HIS COMRADES SAID HE FEW STORIES ARE AS REMARKABLE AS THE TALE OF HUGH WAS ‘TORE NEARLY ALL TO PEASES.’ GLASS, AN EARLY MOUNTAIN MAN, WHO WAS LEFT FOR DEAD HE MOUNTAIN MEN DID WHAT THEY COULD BANDAGING HIS AFTER A LETHAL T , WOUNDS AND STITCHING THEM UP BUT THEY ALL ASSUMED HE GRIZZLY BEAR , WOULD DIE. ANDREW HENRY, THE GROUP LEADER, RECRUITED ATTACK. ALTHOUGH OHN ITZGERALD AND A TEENAGE IM RIDGER TO STAY WITH DESERTED AND J F J B THE WOUNDED MAN AND TO BURY HIM AFTER HE DIED. SEVERELY INJURED, GLASS MANAGED TO FITZGERALD AND BRIDGER WAITED IN A SIDE CANYON OF THE CRAWL ALMOST 350 GRAND RIVER, BUT AFTER A FEW DAYS HE’D DEVELOPED A MILES TO FORT HIGH FEVER. DECIDING THE MAN WOULD SOON DIE,

KIOWA, SURVIVING FITZGERALD AND BRIDGER TOOK GLASS’S RIFLE, KNIFE, Hugh Glass being attacked by a WITHOUT WEAPONS, TOMAHAWK, FLINT, STEEL, POWDER, AND LEAD, AND LEFT grizzly bear in 1823, from an COMPANIONS, OR HIM. GLASS THOUGH, DID NOT DIE. early newspaper illustration FOOD. dated June 3, 1823. WHEN HIS FEVER BROKE, HE ATE BUFFALO BERRIES AND KILLED LITTLE IS KNOWN A RATTLESNAKE, POUNDING THE RAW MEAT UNTIL HE COULD ABOUT THE EARLY LIFE OF HUGH GLASS. IT IS BELIEVED HE EAT IT. AS HIS STRENGTH GREW, HE VOWED TO SURVIVE AND WAS BORN IN BETWEEN 1775 AND 1780 AND TAKE VENGEANCE ON THE MEN WHO’D ABANDONED HIM. WENT TO SEA WHEN HE WAS AROUND 20. HIS SHIP WAS UNABLE TO WALK, GLASS CRAWLED ALMOST 350 MILES TO CAPTURED BY PIRATES AND GLASS WORKED FOR BUCCANEER FORT KIOWA, SURVIVING AT ONE POINT BY ROLLING ONTO A JEAN LAFITTE UNTIL 1818 WHEN ONE NIGHT HE JUMPED SHIP ROTTING LOG AND LETTING MAGGOTS EAT HIS INFECTED FLESH. ON THE TEXAS COAST. HE REACHED THE FORT AND EVENTUALLY FORGAVE BRIDGER, HE MADE HIS WAY THROUGH COMANCHE AND KIOWA SAYING HE WAS TOO YOUNG TO KILL. HE FOUND FITZGERALD TERRITORY, BUT WAS CAPTURED BY PAWNEES. GLASS GAVE AND RETRIEVED HIS RIFFLE, BUT WAS UNABLE TO KILL THE THE CHIEF A GIFT OF CINNABAR (PRIZED FOR ITS USE IN MAKING DISREPUTABLE SWINE BECAUSE THE MAN WAS ENLISTED IN THE RED WAR PAINT) AND SAVED HIMSELF FROM A DEATH OF BEING ARMY. IN 1833, GLASS WAS KILLED AND SCALPED NEAR FORT BURNED ALIVE. IN 1822, GLASS ESCAPED THE TRIBE AND CASS BY A PARTY OF WARRIORS. JOINED THE ASHLEY-HENRY FUR COMPANY. 1. Frontier Medicine from the Atlantic to the Pacific, AFTER A 1,500 KEELBOAT JOURNEY UP THE 1492-1941, David Dary, 2008, pp 103-104. AND A 300 MILE TREK UP THE , GLASS 2. The Epic True Tale of Hugh Glass, Richard Grant, WAS HUNTING ALONE WHEN HE SURPRISED A HUGE GRIZZLY http://www.cowboysindians.com/2015/11/the- SOW WITH CUBS. HE SHOT THE ANIMAL, WOUNDING IT, BUT epic-true-tale-of-hugh-glass/