Mauled by a grizzly and left for dead in 1823, the frontiersman Hugh Glass simply refused to die: he dragged his broken body across the wilderness for weeks, by some accounts as far as 200 miles, until he somehow reached help alive

Mauled by a grizzly and left for dead in 1823, the frontiersman Hugh Glass simply refused to die: he dragged his broken body across the wilderness for weeks, by some accounts as far as 200 miles, until he somehow reached help alive

Picture the Grand River Valley in late August 1823, high grass and low scrub in what is now northwestern South Dakota, near the modern town of Lemmon. A hunter is moving ahead of the main party, searching for game. In the brushy river bottom he comes face to face with a mother grizzly and two cubs. What happens next leaves a man broken open on the ground. That hunter was Hugh Glass, and what he did afterward is one of the strangest survival stor…