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The Movie The Revenant is on today..could you have survived?
Posted on 2/7/22 at 3:50 pm
Posted on 2/7/22 at 3:50 pm
Looking back at how tough a person needed to be during that timeframe as a 19th century frontiersman?.
Could you have survived?
Nonwistanding the grizzly bear attack. I mean, frick that. The will to live is strong but several times I think I might have not made it another day. Just brutal conditions and you had to be a tough SOB to withstand the harsh winter and worry about getting your scalp peeled back or eaten by a pack of wolves or mauled by a bear.
19th century frontiersman would have sucked, especially in the winter months.
Could you have survived?
Nonwistanding the grizzly bear attack. I mean, frick that. The will to live is strong but several times I think I might have not made it another day. Just brutal conditions and you had to be a tough SOB to withstand the harsh winter and worry about getting your scalp peeled back or eaten by a pack of wolves or mauled by a bear.
19th century frontiersman would have sucked, especially in the winter months.
This post was edited on 2/7/22 at 3:52 pm
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Posted on 2/7/22 at 3:51 pm to spacewrangler
No
Posted on 2/7/22 at 3:53 pm to AlxTgr
Talk about 9 lives! I get cold just thinking about that guy.
Posted on 2/7/22 at 3:57 pm to spacewrangler
no.
Posted on 2/7/22 at 3:59 pm to spacewrangler
Frontiersmen were wired differently.
Posted on 2/7/22 at 4:11 pm to spacewrangler
I don't think I could survive watching that movie again, soooo long and slow
Posted on 2/7/22 at 4:12 pm to spacewrangler
Doubtful. lol
Imagine being an explore and coming up to the banks of the Miss river
. Immediately being like oh shite. Hell some probably thought they could swim it or raft across. But, I'd think men of that caliber would be able to tell from the current what going in would do. That and no levees back then so maybe it flew slower in some areas.
Imagine being an explore and coming up to the banks of the Miss river
. Immediately being like oh shite. Hell some probably thought they could swim it or raft across. But, I'd think men of that caliber would be able to tell from the current what going in would do. That and no levees back then so maybe it flew slower in some areas. 
Posted on 2/7/22 at 4:16 pm to Marciano1
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Frontiersmen were wired differently
This article is about my 5th great-grandfather. We still hunt our share of the land he acquired in Lincoln Parish.
I often wonder what it was like to pack up everything you owned in Georgia and take off to Louisiana and how long it would take. I don't know if they all rode horses or walked or what.
I know traveling across the south isn't like surviving blizzards on the plains, but these people were tougher than any of us.
This post was edited on 2/7/22 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 2/7/22 at 4:32 pm to spacewrangler
If we grew up in that kind of environment and had to trap to eat, we would do that! Now, about surviving the Grizzly attack, I’d say I wouldn’t make it.
Yewcouldnotdewit would be poster name.
Yewcouldnotdewit would be poster name.
Posted on 2/7/22 at 4:33 pm to spacewrangler
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Looking back at how tough a person needed to be during that timeframe as a 19th century frontiersman?. Could you have survived?
Modern man has been conditioned to be soft. Modern medicine and modern conveniences have softened us to something that even recent as our great grandfathers would not even be able to comprehend.
My 1920s era great grandmother tried to keep fishing and trapping the marsh land and raise two kids on a housboat when my great grandfather died from a hernia (gangerene) he got from working on that houseboat.
Posted on 2/7/22 at 4:43 pm to spacewrangler
Swamp arse would have undone many a person
Posted on 2/7/22 at 4:47 pm to spacewrangler
No. I couldn’t do it today with all the advancements in clothing and firearms. I’m still amazed the human race is still around.
Posted on 2/7/22 at 5:01 pm to spacewrangler
If and that’s a big if, I survived the bear I would have froze to death..
Posted on 2/7/22 at 5:12 pm to spacewrangler
What channel? I want to record. Awesome movie.
The scenery alone is worth the time.
The scenery alone is worth the time.
Posted on 2/7/22 at 5:34 pm to spacewrangler
Dude got raped by a bear (I know he didn’t really but it’s a meme).
But to answer your question, no.
ETA: To be honest, I would not want to live without toilet paper.
But to answer your question, no.
ETA: To be honest, I would not want to live without toilet paper.
This post was edited on 2/7/22 at 5:38 pm
Posted on 2/7/22 at 5:57 pm to spacewrangler
I suggest everyone read the book. It’s better than the movie.
And I enjoyed the movie.
And I enjoyed the movie.
Posted on 2/7/22 at 6:23 pm to REB BEER
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I often wonder what it was like to pack up everything you owned in Georgia and take off to Louisiana and how long it would take. I don't know if they all rode horses or walked or what.
Gotta be a cake walk compared to those that went down the Oregon trail.
Posted on 2/7/22 at 6:27 pm to finchmeister08
There is a 1971 movie, “The Man in the Wilderness” starring Richard Harris and John Huston. The movie is virtually the same plot as “The Revenant”. “The Revenant” is better but it’s still worth watching. I watched it to day on Prime.
This post was edited on 2/7/22 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 2/7/22 at 6:59 pm to spacewrangler
I don't believe in reincarnation, but I often wonder if in a previous life I might have been a frontiersman. I often have dreams of being in the distant past alone out in primitive wilderness and the dreams are very real and specific. The thing that gets me about the dreams are the constant silence and solitude. Survival was very instinctive and desperate. In reality, people on the early frontier died early and often. They didn't think of themselves as victims and didn't whine all the time about hardship. We live in different times.
When I was a little boy (4-5 years old) I lived next to some very deep woods near the Atchafalaya Basin and just decided one day to take off and spend the day running in the woods. It always felt very natural and peaceful to me to be there. My mom was too busy to miss me and only got mad when I came home all bit up by the creatures stuffed in my shirt.
I still feel most comfortable when I am alone in some unfamiliar deep woods. I spend a lot of time in the woods, I hope I die there when the time comes.
When I was a little boy (4-5 years old) I lived next to some very deep woods near the Atchafalaya Basin and just decided one day to take off and spend the day running in the woods. It always felt very natural and peaceful to me to be there. My mom was too busy to miss me and only got mad when I came home all bit up by the creatures stuffed in my shirt.
I still feel most comfortable when I am alone in some unfamiliar deep woods. I spend a lot of time in the woods, I hope I die there when the time comes.
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