Near the forks of the Grand River, near present-day Shadehill Reservoir, Perkins County, South Dakota, while scouting for game for the expedition larder, Glass surprised and disturbed a mother grizzly bear with two cubs. Andrew Henry, Ashley's partner, had joined the group, and he along with Glass and several others set out overland to the Yellowstone River. Glass and the rest of the Ashley Party eventually returned to Fort Kiowa to regroup for the trip west. Yr Obt Svt Hugh Glass Grizzly bear mauling Master Ashley is bound to stay in these parts till the traitors are rightly punished. We traded with them as friends but after a great storm of rain and thunder they came at us before light and many were hurt. His body we buried with others near this camp and marked the grave with a log. Smith a young man of our company made a powerful prayer who moved us all greatly and I am persuaded John died in peace. We brought him to the ship when he soon died. He died a little while after he was shot and asked me to inform you of his sad fate. My painful duty it is to tell you of the death of your son who befell at the hands of the Indians 2nd June in the early morning. Glass wrote a letter to the parents of John S. Glass was apparently shot in the leg and the survivors retreated downstream and sent for help.
In June 1823 they met up with many of the men that had joined in 1822, and were attacked by Arikara warriors. Glass, however, did not join Ashley's company until the next year, when he ascended the Missouri River with Ashley. These men and others would later be known as " Ashley's Hundred". Many of them, who later earned reputations as famous mountain men, joined the enterprise, including James Beckwourth, David Jackson, William Sublette, Jim Bridger, Thomas Fitzpatrick, James Clyman and Jedediah Smith. In 1822, many men responded to an advertisement in the Missouri Gazette and Public Advertiser placed by General William Henry Ashley, which called for a corps of 100 men to "ascend the river Missouri" as part of a fur-trading venture. Louis, Missouri in 1821, accompanying several Pawnee delegates invited to meet with U.S. He was later rumored to have been captured by the Pawnee tribe, with whom he lived for several years. Glass allegedly escaped by swimming to shore near what is present-day Galveston, Texas. He was reported to have been captured by pirates under the command of Gulf of Mexico chief Jean Lafitte off the coast of Texas in 1816, and was forced to become a pirate for up to two years. His life before the famous bear attack is largely unverifiable, and his frontier story contained numerous embellishments. Glass was born in Pennsylvania, to Irish parents. 4 Further explorations for General Ashley in 1824.Also, it is likely to have been embellished over the years as a legend. There is no writing from Hugh Glass himself to corroborate the veracity of it. Although originally published anonymously, it was later revealed to be the work of James Hall, brother of The Port Folio 's editor. It was first recorded in 1825 in The Port Folio, a Philadelphia literary journal, as a literary piece and later picked up by various newspapers.
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Another version of the story was told in a 1966 episode of the TV series Death Valley Days, titled "Hugh Glass Meets the Bear".ĭespite the story's popularity, its accuracy has been disputed. They both portray the survival struggle of Glass, who (in the best historical accounts) crawled and stumbled 200 miles (320 km) to Fort Kiowa, South Dakota, after being abandoned without supplies or weapons by fellow explorers and fur traders during General Ashley's expedition of 1823. His life story has been the basis of two feature-length films: Man in the Wilderness (1971) and The Revenant (2015). Glass became an explorer of the watershed of the Upper Missouri River, in present-day Montana, the Dakotas, and the Platte River area of Nebraska. No records exist regarding his origins but he is widely said to have been born in Pennsylvania to Irish, possibly Scots-Irish, parents. He is best known for his story of survival and forgiveness after being left for dead by companions when he was mauled by a grizzly bear. 1783 – 1833) was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter, and explorer.
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