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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 .
Built in 1822 by the Columbia Fur Company to serve the expanding fur trade in the American West, the square 140-by-140-foot (43 by 43 m) fort served as an important rest stop and trading post for trappers and explorers such as Jim Bridger and Hugh Glass. In the early 1840s, as the American fur trade moved further west, Fort Kiowa was abandoned.
Hugh Glass (1817–1871) was an Australian pastoralist, landowner and land speculator, one of the wealthiest and most influential men in colonial Victoria in the 1850s and 1860s. [2] His wealth was built on pastoral holdings and land deals and he exercised enormous influence over the colony's parliament.
Articles relating to the American frontiersman Hugh Glass (c. 1783-1833) and his depictions. Pages in category "Hugh Glass" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Major Andrew Henry (c. 1775 – January 10, 1832) was an American miner, army officer, frontiersman, trapper and entrepreneur. Alongside William H. Ashley, Henry was the co-owner of the successful Rocky Mountain Fur Company, otherwise known as "Ashley's Hundred", for the famous mountain men working for their firm from 1822 to 1832. [1]
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Bridger volunteered to stay with the dying Hugh Glass after he was mauled by a grizzly bear in 1823. The account of the bear attack and subsequent desertion of Hugh Glass has been repeated by many. [7] Bridger was employed by Ashley at the time of the attack near the forks of the Grand River in present-day Perkins County, South Dakota. John ...
The Anzick Site (registered as 24PA506) at about the elevation of the bottom of the hillside below the arrow, is the only known Clovis burial site in North America In 1961, while hunting marmots at a sandstone outcrop on the Anzick family property, about one mile south of Wilsall , Montana, Bill Roy Bray found a stone projectile point and bones ...