Some True Adventures in the Life of Hugh Glass, a Hunter and

Some True Adventures in the Life of Hugh Glass, a Hunter and Trapper on the Missouri River (1857)

Cover artwork: adapted from 1911 painting by famous Great West artist Charles Russell

Hugh Glass (c. 1780â€“1833) was an American fur trapper and frontiersman noted for his exploits in the American West during the first third of the 19th century. Glass was born in Pennsylvania, to Irish parents. He was an explorer of the watershed of the Upper Missouri River in present day North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. Glass was famed, most of all, as a frontier folk hero for his legendary cross-country trek after being mauled by a grizzly bear. Glass' most famous adventure began in 1822, when he responded to an advertisement in the Missouri Gazette and Public Adviser, placed by General William Ashley, which called for a corps of 100 men to "ascend the river Missouri" as part of a fur trading venture. These men would later be known as Ashley's Hundred.

Besides Glass, others who joined the enterprise included notables such as James Beckwourth, Thomas Fitzpatrick, David Jackson, John Fitzgerald, William Sublette, Jim Bridger, and Jedediah Smith.

Early in the trek, Glass established himself as a hard-working fur trapper. He was apparently wounded on this trip in a battle with Arikara, and later traveled with a party of 13 men to relieve traders at Fort Henry, at the mouth of the Yellowstone River. The expedition, led by Andrew Henry, planned to proceed from the Missouri, up the valley of the Grand River in present-day South Dakota, then across to the valley of the Yellowstone.

The sketch in this book is related by the explorer and Army officer Philip St. George Cooke.

This book originally published by Lindsay & Blakiston in 1857 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
Country USA
Author Philip St. George Cooke
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 17
PublicationDate 2015-12-05
ReleaseDate 2015-12-05

Country	USA
Author	Philip St. George Cooke
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	17
PublicationDate	2015-12-05
ReleaseDate	2015-12-05

Some True Adventures in the Life of Hugh Glass, a Hunter and Trapper on the Missouri River (1857)

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