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Was Hugh Glass One of the Baddest Men to Ever Live?
Posted on 1/21/15 at 1:57 pm
Posted on 1/21/15 at 1:57 pm
Leonardo DiCaprio is going to play him in an upcoming movie.
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This happened in 1823:
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This happened in 1823:
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Near the forks of the Grand River in present-day Perkins County, in August 1823, while scouting ahead of his trading partners for game for the expedition's larder, Glass surprised a grizzly bear mother with her two cubs. Before he could fire his rifle, the bear charged, picked him up, and threw him to the ground. The bear threw his flesh to its cubs. Glass got up, grappled for his knife, and fought back, stabbing the animal repeatedly as the grizzly raked him time and again with her claws.
Glass managed to kill the bear with help from his trapping partners, Fitzgerald and Bridger, but was left badly mauled and unconscious. Henry (who was also with them) became convinced the man would not survive his injuries.
Henry asked for two volunteers to stay with Glass until he died, and then bury him. Bridger (then 19 years old) and Fitzgerald (then 23 years old) stepped forward, and as the rest of the party moved on, began digging his grave.[1] Later claiming that they were interrupted in the task by an attack by "Arikaree"[citation needed] Indians, the pair grabbed Glass's rifle, knife, and other equipment, and took flight. Bridger and Fitzgerald incorrectly reported to Henry that Glass had died.
The odyssey to Fort Kiowa
Despite his injuries, Glass regained consciousness. He did so only to find himself abandoned, without weapons or equipment, suffering from a broken leg, the cuts on his back exposing bare ribs, and all his wounds festering. Glass lay mutilated and alone, more than 200 miles (320 km) from the nearest American settlement at Fort Kiowa on the Missouri.
In one of the more remarkable treks known to history, Glass set his own leg, wrapped himself in the bear hide his companions had placed over him as a shroud, and began crawling. To prevent gangrene, Glass laid his wounded back on a rotting log and let the maggots eat the dead flesh.
Deciding that following the Grand River would be too dangerous because of hostile Indians, Glass crawled overland south toward the Cheyenne River using Thunder Butte, a prominent landmark visible for miles, as a navigational tool. It would take him six weeks to reach the Cheyenne River. Glass survived mostly on wild berries and roots. On one occasion he was able to drive two wolves from a downed bison calf, and feast on the meat. Aided by friendly natives who sewed a bear hide to his back to cover the exposed wounds as well as providing him with food and a couple of weapons to defend himself, Glass eventually made his way to the Cheyenne River, fashioned a crude raft and floated down the river, eventually reaching the safety of Fort Kiowa.
Posted on 1/21/15 at 1:58 pm to AlaTiger
No Jack Blasingame, no care
Posted on 1/21/15 at 1:59 pm to AlaTiger
Meh, he got beat up by a female in front of her kids and needed his friends to jump in
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:01 pm to lsu480
Ha!
Everyone on the OT would have sat there and died.
It goes on to say that he went after the men who left him to exact revenge and get his rifle back.
Everyone on the OT would have sat there and died.
It goes on to say that he went after the men who left him to exact revenge and get his rifle back.
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:02 pm to AlaTiger
he was a tough mother fricker
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:06 pm to AlaTiger
Damn when I stub my toe I'm sidelined for a good day
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:07 pm to AlaTiger
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the Baddest Men to Ever Live?
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Leonardo DiCaprio is going to play him in an upcoming movie.
Shitty casting.
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:11 pm to AlaTiger
I nominate John Wesley Powell. A movie about the first exploration of the Grand Canyon and Colorado River would be bad-fricking-arse. If y'all ever get the chance, read the book The Emerald Mile.
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:12 pm to CadesCove
Leo is one of the best bro
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:14 pm to AlaTiger
He's not not a badass. Thats for sure.
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:16 pm to BRgetthenet
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No Jack Blasingame, no care
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:21 pm to AlaTiger
Not calling total BS, but it is widely accepted that during this time, what was called "journalism" closely resembles writing found in "Weekly World News" today. Sadly, these written accounts made their way into history books.
Exaggerations sold papers, and continued to for many years after. Even today, if you check out Huffington Post.
Exaggerations sold papers, and continued to for many years after. Even today, if you check out Huffington Post.
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:26 pm to BRgetthenet
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No Jack Blasingame, no care
who?
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:31 pm to Choctaw
I saw this on Mysteries at the Museum, so it's true
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:36 pm to AlaTiger
I'll put Gene Moe against him. LINK
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However, when a man goes up against a massive, insanely powerful creature in life-or-death hand-to-hand combat and emerges victorious, that's another story all together. That's exactly what happened to 68 year-old hunter Gene Moe while he was out hunting deer on Raspberry Island near Kodiak, Alaska. Gene had just killed a buck and was in the process of cleaning it with his pocketknife when all of a sudden he looked over his shoulder and saw a fricking gigantor 750-pound Kodiak grizzly bear lunge at him teeth-first in an attempt to consume poor Gene's entire face in one chomp. Gene never even heard the thing coming and in a split-second this bear had bitten a huge chunk out of his shoulder and started kicking his arse all over the place. Since Gene was in the process being slapped around like a bitch by this ginormous killing machine he had no time to run across the small clearing and grab his rifle, so he did the only thing he could - he started stabbing the shite out of this fricking bear with his stupid folding-blade pocketknife
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It took seven hours of surgery, two skin grafts, one month of rehab and over five hundred stitches, but Gene Moe survived the ordeal. He had gone toe-to-toe with a seven hundred pound killing machine that possessed the strength of ten angry pickup trucks, managed to beat the holy living crap out of it using only his bare hands and a ten dollar pocketknife, army-crawled his way two miles to safety and lived to tell the tale. fricking amazing. In true badass fashion, the first thing Gene Moe did after leaving the hospital was to recover the body of his slain enemy and have it mounted on the wall of his trophy room. Now that's a hunting tale that commands respect.
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:47 pm to AlaTiger
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Bhanbhagta Gurung was a Nepalese civilian whose bravery and general badassery during World War II garnered him the Victoria Cross – the highest honor available to British and Commonwealth soldiers. Gurung singlehandedly attacked enemy foxholes with bayonets and grenades, at times coming in point-blank range of machine guns. The account of his deeds encapsulated by the British press:
“Without waiting for orders Bhanbhagta dashed forward alone and attacked the first enemy foxhole and, hurling grenades, he killed the two occupants. He then ran at the next foxhole, killing two of the enemy with his bayonet. Nearby, two other enemy foxholes were inflicting casualties on his section. Showing raw courage he attacked both positions, clearing them with grenades and finishing off the enemy with his bayonet.
Throughout these attacks Bhanbhagta was fired on continuously from a machine-gun situated on the tip of the objective. Realising this was holding up the advance of two of the battalion’s platoons, Bhanbhagta again edged forward and – keeping low – he made the top of the bunker only to find he had run out of hand grenades, so he flung two No 72 smoke grenades into the bunker slit. Two of the Japanese ran out, blinded, with their clothes aflame. Bhanbhagta killed them with his kukri. One foolishly brave Japanese remained inside, still firing the machine gun. Bhanbhagta crawled inside the bunker and, prevented by the cramped space from using his bayonet or kukri, beat the gunner to death with a rock.
Posted on 1/21/15 at 2:53 pm to AlaTiger
I have trouble making it through the day when my iPhone battery dies.
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