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In 1823, frontiersman Hugh Glass was mauled by a grizzly bear and abandoned by the two men assigned to bury him. Broken and feverish, he crawled and rafted some 200 miles to Fort Kiowa, living on roots, berries and whatever the prairie left him.

Hugh Glass, 1823

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No account from Glass himself survives; the story reached print in 1825, retold by men of the frontier, so the finer details grew in the telling. What the records support is remarkable enough: a man given up for dead who set his own broken leg and travelled for around six weeks to safety. The strangest part, as the story goes, is the ending — when Glass finally faced the men who had left him, he let them live.

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1823'te kürk avcısı Hugh Glass bir boz ayının saldırısına uğradı ve onu gömmekle görevlendirilen iki adam tarafından terk edildi. Kırık ve ateşler içindeki bedeniyle, kökler ve yemişlerle beslenerek yaklaşık 320 kilometre sürünüp sal üstünde Fort Kiowa'ya ulaştı.
Hugh Glass, 1823

Glass'ın kendi ağzından bir anlatı günümüze ulaşmadı; hikâye 1825'te sınır boylarının adamlarınca aktarılarak basıldı, ayrıntılar anlatıldıkça büyüdü. Kayıtların desteklediği kısım bile yeterince olağanüstü: Ölüme terk edilmiş bir adam kırık bacağını kendi yerleştirdi ve altı hafta boyunca güvenliğe doğru ilerledi. Hikâyeye göre en tuhaf kısım ise sonu — Glass onu bırakan adamlarla sonunda yüzleştiğinde, yaşamalarına izin verdi.

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