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In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass’s fellows rushed to his aid and slew the bear, but Glass’s injuries mocked their first aid. The expedition leader arranged for his funeral: two men would stay behind to bury the corpse when it finally stopped gurgling; the rest would move on. Alone in Indian country, the caretakers quickly lost their nerve. They fled, taking Glass’s gun, knife, and ammunition with them. But Glass wouldn’t die. He began crawling toward Fort Kiowa, hundreds of miles to the east, and as his speed picked up, so did his ire. The bastards who took his gear and left him to rot were going to pay.Here Lies Hugh Glass springs from this legend.



About the Author

Jon T. Coleman

I grew up in Boulder, Colorado and received my BA and MA from the University of Colorado. I traveled east for my Ph. D., graduating from Yale University in 2003. Since 2004, I have taught American history at the University of Notre Dame, where I hold the rank of full professor. I have written three books: Vicious: Wolves and America (Yale, 2004) , Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation (Hill & Wang, 2012) , and Nature Shock: Getting Lost in America (Yale, 2020) . Vicious won the W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association for the best first book in western American history and the John H. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association for the outstanding monograph in U. S. history published by a young scholar (defined as a first or a second book) . I received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013 and an ACLS Fellowship in 2020. My next book, The Mighty Kankakee: History Against the Current will examine the history of the vast wetlands in northern Indiana and Illinois, a the soggy Midwestern marvel that was flushed down the drain.



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