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It's August 1823, and Hugh Glass is working as part of a fur trapping operation and trading company that is doing work deep in a territory that is now South Dakota.

So this is hostile ground for a lot of reasons. There is almost unbearable terrain. There are warring Native American tribes all around them. There are

deadly predators like grizzly bears. But Hugh Glass is one of the most experienced frontiersmen in

the country at the time. But even he could not have predicted what would happen next. So he's operating in

this area and he pushes through a thicket, a brush, and walks directly into an area where a mama grizzly bear is with her cubs.

Before Glass even has a chance to raise his rifle, the grizzly bear is right on top of him.

She immediately pins him to the ground and begins to malle him.

With her teeth and her claws, she tears the flesh from his back.

His companions hear the commotion and they come running.

It took several men and multiple rifle shots, but they do eventually kill the bear. By the time they get this enormous

animal off of glass, they think he's dead. They soon realize that he's not, but he probably should

be. His scalp is partially torn off of his skull. His back is so shredded that you could see his rib cage and his internal organs.

He has lacerations on his throat to one of his legs is broken, and he's unconscious.

And soon thereafter, his wounds became infected.

So this is obviously a list of circumstances that is not very consistent with life.

So the leader of the expedition was forced to make a very

difficult and pragmatic decision. The group could not stay in this area. It just wasn't possible.

They would be risking their own lives if they tried to stay there. I mean, they're right in the

middle of territory with all these very hostile tribes. It's not great circumstances. And so setting up

camp was just not a viable

option either. They have to move out. But the expedition leader asked for two volunteers to stay with

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