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  2. Hugh Glass - Wikipedia

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    Hugh Glass (c. 1783 – 1833) [1] [2] [3] was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter and explorer. 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 .

  3. Man in the Wilderness - Wikipedia

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    Lord Grizzly, a 1954 biographical novel by Frederick Manfred, about the Hugh Glass story; Survival film, about the film genre, with a list of related films; The Revenant (2015), also about Hugh Glass [7] The Song of Hugh Glass, an epic poem from 1915, part of A Cycle of the West, written by John Neihardt, who is most famous for his book Black ...

  4. Oak Grove Cemetery (Lexington, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    The cemetery was renamed in 1949 as the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery after the Confederate general, who was buried here in 1863. The current name dates to September 3, 2020. [ 1 ] Also buried here are 144 Confederate veterans, two Governors of Virginia , and Margaret Junkin Preston , the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy".

  5. Thomas Fitzpatrick (trapper) - Wikipedia

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    In the 1966 episode "Hugh Glass Meets the Bear" of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days, the actor Morgan Woodward was cast as Fitzpatrick. John Alderson played Hugh Glass , who after being mauled by a bear and abandoned by Fitzpatrick crawled two hundred miles to civilization.

  6. Virginia city renames burial site of Stonewall Jackson - AOL

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    The city council in Lexington voted unanimously Thursday to adopt a law changing the name of Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery to Oak Grove Cemetery, news outlets reported.

  7. Historic North Jersey Black burial site open this weekend in ...

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    The historic Gethsemane Cemetery in Little Ferry, final resting place of former slaves, will be open on Saturday and Sunday for self-guided tours. Historic North Jersey Black burial site open this ...

  8. Rocky Mountain Fur Company - Wikipedia

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    Among the original employees, known as "Ashley's Hundred," were Jedediah Smith, who went on to take a leading role in the company's operations, and Jim Bridger, who was among those who bought out Smith and his partners in 1830. It was Bridger and his partners who gave the enterprise the name "Rocky Mountain Fur Company."

  9. Cedar Hill Cemetery (Suffolk, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    Cedar Hill Cemetery, also known as Green Hill Cemetery, is a historic cemetery and national historic district located at Suffolk, Virginia.The district encompasses four contributing structures, one contributing site, and three contributing objects in the a city-owned, 25-acre, public cemetery dating to 1802.