If you don't know who Hugh Glass is, Let me give a brief history lesson on who this guy is.
Hugh Glass was and explorer/fur trader in 1822. Well on one journey for trading fur. He was known as one of the most hard working trappers in the group of 100. Well... until he startled a fucking Grizzly Bear mom and her cubs!
He tried firing his rifle. But to no avail since the fucking bear THREW him away from his rifle. He got out his freaking knife and fought that bear with two others. A man called Bridger and the other Fitzgerald also shooting at the bear. Hugh Glass, Mutilated and laying there near dead. His two companions that helped kill the bear were ordered to stay with him until he died... for the fact that he had a DESTROYED leg, his back was sliced open enough to see his ribs and all of it was festering already.
Well, the two guys say that there were Natives in the area and took off, grabbing all of Glasses equipment and ran off only leaving him in a bear skin blanket to die.
Well... that is not the end of the journey. He woke back up, seeing that his two buddies abandoned him and took his shit, he became mad... To the point where he set his own destroyed leg, and crawled/limped south of the Grand River because he didn't want to be killed by unfriendly Natives at the time. To prevent gangreen, he laid on top of a rotting log and let maggots eat his dead flesh. He crawled/limped for 6 FUCKING WEEKS, only eating berries/roots and the one dead bison calf that some wolves had killed until he got back to his fort of Kiowa.
All with one thing on his mind... REVENGE!!!!
After resting up a bit... since he did take a bear to his body. He went out, looking for the two that abandoned him. He found Bridger at Yellowstone in front of the bighorn river and only spared his ass because he was to young. While when he found Fitzgerald. He was unable to fucking waste him because he was now a soldier in the army, and you really couldn't do anything to them. However he did get his gun back.
How in fucks name has more stuff not been made from this guy? Sure a loosely based movie was made from this guy. But considering the shit this guy had to go through. Sparing the people who abandoned him. Fought a fucking grizzly bear mom with a knife, I think this qualifies the dude to have a fucking awesome video game/movie/book off of the guy. I mean... if you do all that shit, you should be entitled to all that and more.
I mean. Holy shit... this is the stuff you hear about in fiction or something a video game character would go through. I mean. Holy shit. How is this guy not more famous for all this!? This is the most badass thing I have ever heard!
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