The REAL Revenant: Incredible Survival Story of Hugh Glass
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- Step into the wild frontier and explore the untold story of Hugh Glass and the REAL Revenant. From surviving a brutal bear attack to escaping the clutches of pirates, Glass's journey is nothing short of extraordinary. Join us as we delve into the fascinating life of this legendary mountain man and don't forget to subscribe for more thrilling historical adventures from the Wild and Wooly West! #wildwest #history #western
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The maggots saved him by eating his dead flesh. The maggots earned their wings. 😇
I see what you did there.
When Mr. Glass caught up with Jim Bridger had me rollin
There's a book called the witchery of archery that was written by a frontiersman and has great stories of being a hunter and traveling through native american territories in the same time period
Gadfly here 👍
That book will come in handy for the future 🤞
If Hugh Glass was near death and unconscious, how would he know it was Bridger that left him?
About grizzly’s… I read in Lewis and Clark’s journals, after a near encounter in which a bear chased a man over a cliff into a river, “Our curiosity concerning the beasts is well satisfied and we would do well not to meet any more of them”.
Glass knew that Bridger was with him before the attack. When he came back to his senses, Bridger was not with him anymore.
@@daviddawson1718 he means after the attack. Before the attack there was a whole group of men with him. I figure he was slipping in and out of conciousness. Someone had to be giving him water after the attack and he had to be conscious to drink. So he knew who was with him. Until they werent.
Lived and worked many years in densely forested brushy bear country. Have had more than a few surprise encounters. Running into a large grizzly is a bit more adrenaline charged than discovering you're in a tight place with the average black bear. Either way, they usually run seeing a human, but if she's a sow and you got too close to her cubs, or a bore or sow that's lost the human fear and is aggressive, they can dish out a horrific mauling. Like the grizzly sow in Glacier Park my wife and I witnessed rip a man up like he was a little rag doll. For him it was fatal.
What year did you see this in Glacier?
Black Osos can be vicious too, I have seen their claws marked on people, and... not pretty.
BUT those Grizzly claws are more than double their size and the arms behind 3 times as heavy. Like getting caressed by Edward "scissor-hands" but with an arm behind as heavy as an 80 lbs potato bag, just dropping on you. Imagine their power if swinging a true jab at you, any arms no matter how bodybuilder thick you may throw to fend yourself will be pulled off their sockets if hooked. Gnarly and ghastly, Werewolf like.
Reason they have a thing called bear bells. One should make a little noise so as not to surprise. Singing a happy tune, music calms the savage beast.
He also lived and worked even more years in a densely forested brushy squirrel country… I think
Encountered a griz tearing up a log for grubs, as it started to leave I was preparing to do the same as 1 of my hiking friend’s fumbled for his camera whining about missing a picture, his friend let out a shrill whistle to which the griz turned around, stood up and then started coming up the trail toward us and the last thing they saw of me was my south end heading northbound!
If I said it once I've said it 100 times best learning of old west history ever. We here at the Outlaw Saloon in San Antonio ain't never been good at no book learning but we sure are good at drinking beer, whiskey, talking shit and listing to Bloody Beaver Podcast. Keep up the hard work Josh it truly is appreciated. OUTLAW UP!!
Thanks for this, even though I live 15 miles from the Hugh Glass Memorial, I have never saw the movie. We all knew about this from our earliest memories of our teachers telling the story. Since I was in a one room school room, I heard the story for many years.
You really need to watch it!! It is a very intense movie. When he gets attacked by the bear you’ll swear it’s real!
Your storytelling is so good that i'm going to listen to all of them.
You're a very gifted person.
This is really the only podcast, or CZcams video, I highly anticipate each month. Keep it going.
The humor incorporated is a great facet, also.
Many of the comments on this video are very positive concerning the humor of the narrator . I find it very tiresome . Hugh Glass , Jim Bridger , Kit Carson , Frank Grouiard , Liver eating Johnson were no joke . This narrator wouldn't dare joke about these truly important historical figures if they were alive and in the same room as this weeny comedian . He is exactly what these great men would call a "tenderfoot" who would wet his pants if he were ever part of their hunting party , especially if there were Blackfeet or Cheyannes or Sioux around . Grow up all you that would rather giggle than find out the true stories and historical importance of these mountain men . . Real history ,the kind never shown or expressed by this idiot , is so much better . So much more incredible than this guys demeaning jokes , poor jokes at that . Less of his "HUMOR" , and more of true history . The Real story is something this weeny will never understand . Hugh Glass gets mauled by a big Grizzly , is abandoned by Jim Bridger and Mr Fitzgerald ...with no rifle , bullets , powder or Bowie knife ...and this moron makes snide jokes about bit !!! Throw the narrator and his jokes to the Blackfeet and let them show him a world of REALITY ...
I think it’s hilarious, there’s plenty of dry boring CZcams videos out there for people like you to enjoy..nobody is making you listen buddy 🧐🧐🧐
@kevin Maloney lighten up, Francis...
@@jamesc1966 "If I catch anybody touching my stuff... I'll kill ya" lol
@@dogpatchia I don't think the humor diminishes the historical facts. Quit being so sensitive. You wrote 3 paragraphs about it like he made a joke about ur mom.
Much love how respectful and neutral you towards natives Americans when tell accounts.
I really enjoyed listening to this while driving to the Hugh Glass Memorial in Sourh Dakota.
I actually cheered for the bear in the Leonardo movie 😅
Listened today. It was an excellent episode. Lots of information that I didn’t know about ole mr Glass.
I work at home…listened to your great story. I have to admit…started laughing out loud at the pirate jokes! 😂
Glad you enjoyed it
I've heard many of the stories you cover before, but I am really enjoying your take on them. Your story telling and fact checking is top-notch. Even the Arghhh rated jokes. Good on you, man, and thank you.
Wow, thank you!
That episode was done right! Great job! Thanks for the shout out
Josh, you my friend, have been blessed by the good Lord with the gift of gab. Keep up the great work, it's greatly appreciated.
Thank you, Richard
@@WildWestExtravaganza You're a step up from the last ass hat that did the post cast before you. He was lame and stupid. 😎
I think this video could’ve benefited from another half hour segment of pirate jokes and puns but they can’t all be winners👍🏽
Tremendous episode! This is one of my favorites you've done.
Thanks Jayson!
Good effort, sir. I am not keen on jokes or much humor when listening to an account of a historical figure, however I understand the appeal for many. Well done, and thank you for sharing your knowledge. This is certainly better than anything I could record.
Great episode! Thanks for your diligent efforts!
I love how you sprinkle in humour into your story. Keep up the great work! I love listening!
Thanks
You're the cause of me being alone watching yt and laughing out loud. Neighbors looking at me weird in the morning.❤
Haha
hey you did a good job. very informative and entertaining for me..always searching for stuff Ive never heard or seen...
I gotcha on the 250 mile hike breakdown, and the potential to go 10 miles a day…but you also leave out the fact that it’s bitter cold, you’re severely injured from bear, foods very scarce, you could be attacked by Indians any given moment, and the terrain is very treacherous… that takes the 250 miles to a while nother level. If he was at least in his top shape with supplies it still makes it tough but possible. This guy was a fkin animal
Agreed.
This guy really LIVED
In untamed bear country with a single shot black powder and a knife. And sometimes not even that. Not to mention hostile humans. Truly wild times.
I’ve noticed anytime my life gets dark and difficult I always find myself watching the revenant , reading the revenant , or YouTubing a bunch of Hugh glass stuff . Really puts life in perspective , and it in a strange way it brings me comfort . I’m a firm believer that the universe will conspire in a man’s favor when he makes an inward decision and perseveres against all odds . So many things in his story prove that.
PS Homosaywhat?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Endeavor to persevere
@@WildWestExtravaganza- Chief Dan George, Cherokee Nation portraying General Stand Waite, Cherokee Rifles, “The Outlaw Josey Wales”
Great movie
Love These Man!
shiverin' each other's timbers. I like this guy. He's got a Kenny Powders vibe.
Another kick ass story thanks Josh keep them coming
Thanks Art
Another great video sir! Take it from someone who HAS been nearly run down by a bear (a “small” black bear, maybe 350-400 pounds) in 1977, as a Boy Scout at Philmont Scout ranch in the Rockies in the northeastern corner of New Mexico, near Raton-they are FAST. My dumbass buddy and I followed this bear OUT of our camp, where it had sniffed around but done no damage as ALL of our food, and anything that had ANY smell at all (toothpaste, chapstick, etc…) was stowed in a “bear bag” 50 yards off the ground, between 2 tall pines. (We were hiking 63 miles in 2 weeks and that’s what you did EVERY time you made camp so as not to have Bluto rip your tent open in the middle of the night and eat your face and then brush his teeth with the freaking toothpaste that you SHOULD have put in the bear bag! 😮) Anyway, both of us dumbasses followed this bear a couple hundred yards out of our camp, keeping at least 75 yard’s between us. We were trying to get pictures of it-which means we were carrying our cameras-no cell phones in 1977, when my buddy proved himself to be a bigger dumbass than me by, without asking my “thoughts” on it or giving me any warning-he started SNORTING loudly because (as I discovered later) he wanted it to turn around so we could get a better picture. Well, it not only turned around, it stood up on its hind legs, looking right in our direction, took a couple loud snorts of the air to lock-in our coordinates, and hit the ground running at top speed-right for us. By the time I heard Scott say “Oh shit,” in his most “trustworthy and brave” scout tone-I was already 25 yards in the other direction, headed towards camp but also looking for a climbable tree. About 50 yards into my dash, I jumped completely across an arroyo that was maybe 10 feet wide and 8 feet deep. I looked back and realized Scott wasn’t gonna make it. The bear had closed ground on him so fast that I truly thought he was about to be “Revenanted.” He leapt across the arroyo about 20 yards ahead of the bear and as soon as he landed on the other side, Smokey put on the brakes. He came to a complete stop, stood back up on his hind legs, and snorted several times at us. (I imagine he said something like “Don’t try coming across this little gully again dipshits!”) An employee of the ranch, volunteers who would guide us scouts into the mountains on the first 3 days of our 14 day hike, was killed by a black bear the year before we were there and, as our guide told us “Black bears aren’t typically as aggressive as grizzlies, and they don’t get as big, but you don’t want to mess with em!” I have a couple pictures of the bear still, and I’m sure I had some “stained underwear” too. (Not really but I am certain I checked when I was back in my tent!) 🤯💩😳
Scary!
@@WildWestExtravaganza Yeah. It makes you realize how one tiny decision, like snorting at a bear who was minding his own business, can end up being a life-changer or life-ender. We were both 14 year old “city boys,” and we had been WELL WARNED-but neither of us really believed a critter as fat and wombly could move as “fast as a quarter horse for short distances.” It was like having a Rottweiler let loose on you from 75 yards away. Every 10 yards we made, he made 25. I’m glad I’m here to watch your videos and laugh about it some 45 years later. Love your content man. You and me are both fascinated by the exact same stuff. Thanks again for putting all your work up there for all of us history junkies! Semper Fi (and Happy New Year to you and yours!) 👍🏼❤️
Been there, done that too! Also had an up close meeting with a mountain lion who sat crouched ready to spring and started flicking it tail after I stood tall waving my arms and Howard like a coyote holding direct eye contact and only retreated up the hill after I bounced a fist sized rock that came close
Hey, I love listening to your stories. Idk how well known this is outside of the midwest but I'm from ME Missouri where there was some vigilante justice that went down against a Ken McElroy in the early 1980s. I know it's not the old west but it's a pretty interesting story and there's some crazy stories from that whole area (nodaway county)that would be worth exploring. Keep up the good work!
Missouri has always been a state of assholes. Look at what they did to John Smith and the Mormons.
No better delivery on utube. The best of the best. I love the subject matter and the details are well researched. P. S. The best pirate joke EVER: What did Captain Hook die of? Jock itch
Good one
Telling everyone I know about your shows!...fantastic content! Very entertaining!!
Thank you
Just watched this great work man
Thank you
You’re a GREAT storyteller. More please.
Another very interesting and entertaining episode....
You straight up sound like Danny Mcbribe. I feel like Kenny powers is telling this story and I fucking love it. ❤
All i know is i hope the red dead games keep going backwards......
Yes please that would be amazing
Attitude of gratitude 🙏
Continued success.
Another great one for the archives. Pretty disappointed with the revenant story, but that’s Hollyweird. Didn’t know about the pirate angle on his story. Thanks again for doing what you do.
I would have preferred the true non revenge story for a lesson it could have taught, Instead Pedowood did it’s usual thing…
Appreciate the longer video, thought provoking...
Thanks
That was F-in Awesome !!!
Aho! Story Teller strikes again. Surely, I can't be the only one who sees a BB posting and hurries thru work and other callings, with great anticipation, knowing at days end I am to be delightfully entertained! Migwetch, (Thank you).
Migwetch back atcha
I get to watch these at work, with and without headphones works, plus the hour long lunch helps too.
A pirate walks into a bar and sits down next to a sailor. The sailor looks the pirate over taking notice of his peg leg, hook for a hand and eye patch. His curiosity gets the better of him and he asks the pirate how he ended up with the peg leg. The pirate says "lost me leg to a 20 ft great white" Then he asks how he got the hook. The pirate says "lost me hand in a sword fight" and finally he asks about the eye patch. The pirate replies "birdshit" Astounded the sailor asks inquisitively "birdshit?" To which the pirate replied "argh matey was me first day with the hook"
Lol😂 never let the truth get in the way of a good Story so my stepfather said and boy was he good at it!
IDK how this guy ever walked in any mountains with his sack dragging on the ground behind him. He needed a dump truck to tote that pair around.
Truth
Awesome!! That you got Danny Mcbride to do your voice-over. Good stuff
There's also cool stories about Aussie Bushrangers. Like Ned Kelly, William Douglas, "Black Douglas" Charles Russell, Ben Hall, Dan Kelly, and "Bold" Jack Donohoe and the "Wild Colonial Boys". If you like that too.
Sweet lord i love this guys commentary.
Haha, thank you
I wonder If his friend Is talking to him again lol
@@DYLANJJK94 negative
I'm with u...I luv the old west and frontiersmen and all that goes with that time period. U crack me up!!! Ur voice and the way u sound reminds me of Kenny Powers from Eastbound and Down. Keep up the great work. I hope you do a podcast on brothels from the old west.
Thanks for listening, Marc with a C
A mountain man,a priest, and a paleontologist walk into a bar......lol.
Very informative & entertaining!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Doing a great job keep it up.
This was very entertaining. Love yhe mindfulness and humor. I am a fan.
Thanks Scott
I scanned some of the comments and did not notice any mention of the Movie, "Man in the Wilderness". A good film based on Hugh Glass changing his name to Zack Bass. It is worth the look see. I won't spoil it in case you happen check it out. Great pod casts; I'm still playing catch up to hear them all.
The story I heard was Hugh dragged his back over the carcass of a dead animal ( I think the ones the coyotes killed ) on purpose to get the maggots in his cuts to eat the infection & clean his wounds.
Hardcore
@@WildWestExtravaganza hard-core to say the least
Anybody else notice that the necklace in the drawing has eleven claws?
Outstanding! I love ❤ ur style. Do u ever give talks/seminars in Sacramento/San Francisco area. I'd gladly pay & drive from Clearlake to hear 👂. Educational plus entertaining. 10Q very much.
Lov you're deliverance
Thank you
There were two shallow river crossings were the plains Indians crossed over. Cannon ball, ND Standing rock Sioux indian reservation. And old Thompson ' big bend dam ' Crow creek Sioux indian reservation. SD near the town of Fort Thompson.
Thank you very much. 😊
Thanks for this from Wyoming! Make a video on more mountain men/ frontiersmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, the Sheepeaters, or the battle Pierre's Hole
They're all on the list! I can't wait
@@WildWestExtravaganza Nice!!!! Thanks, Bro love these things!
No problem. The Sheepeater especially interest me.
@@WildWestExtravaganza I live right next to the Bighorn Mountains. If you are interested check out the book "Sheepeater" by Allen Alonzo
My dude, of course they didn't go east to New Orleans. New Orleans was where Jean Lafitte has his home and base where he unloaded much of what he took from the sea. There were many many pirates in that area in those times!
Love this podcast idea I will be a new constant listener
Yay!
I've read the book. Several in fact. Your story is good enough i figure. The research was good enough. Good work.
I would love to see an episode on jane canary
There’s actually several old missions and were converts north of Galveston from the Crockett area to Austin and beyond into native territories
Excellent episode as always sir! Much better than the movie!! Hated how they turned a survival story into a revenge tale 😢
While its a bit earlier than most of what you cover, I think you'd really dig "Scoouwa: James Smith's Indian Captivity Narrative." Its a primary source account of a guy who was captured and adopted in 1755, left almost a decade later, then wrote treatises about how to fight Natives their way. Its pretty fascinating.
Sounds really interesting, I'll check it out
Good job man very entertaining and funny
Thanks!
By the way, your research is spectacular and appreciated.
No beaver jokes? Dammit!
Wow amazing work brother.
Thank you so much
@@WildWestExtravaganza you deserve it. I've been binge watching the hell out of all your videos since I found your channel.
Good stuff.
I couldn’t finish this. It was good but the number of commercials was unbearable.
Thank you for pointing this out. I thought the issue was fixed. That's CZcams automatically inserting them. Check back in like 30 mins. My apologies.
@@WildWestExtravaganza : no problem. I wasn’t blaming you. I know that site creators have little control over this. That’s the first of your vids I’ve seen that was this bad. Love your site and content by the way.
I completely understand. No way I'd watch a video with that many ads, either! It should be fixed now.
There is a way to control this. I have watched it from beginning to end using the BRAVE Browser which allows you to choose weather or not you want the commercials. Personally I don't, I figure I pay for the computer, I pay to hook to the Internet, and I Pay for Netflix, Hulu and a couple other pay sites. I don't need to watch commercials that are forced on my by television, and those damn idiots in India who try to scam me out of my social security checks.
Recently found your channel. I love it. Maybe someone's already said this, you referenced the revenant multiple time. You need to watch the man in the wilderness. They change his name to bass in the movie. It follows much closer to to story line you described.
Thanks! Yeah, I'm still kicking myself for not mentioning Man in the Wilderness. Great movie.
@WildWestExtravaganza my uncle told me about the movie. I had seen the Leo's movie long before I watched man in the wilderness. I enjoyed it.
The long anticipated redo lol
Hell yeah
There’s a 1971 movie called Man in the wilderness ,that is more closely related to this story.
Good movie
Dude...I'm glad you kept on following your dream and Passion!!! Keep up The Good Work and Never forget, Jesus Loves Us All!😎👍
Great episode
This was my first time on this channel. Dude kinda sounds like Danny McBride.
Holy shit the Brendan Schaub jab caught me out of left field entirely . Hilarious
2 years later i just heard this one...Brandon shaub comment made me spit out water. Aged so well tho
"stuffing anything edible I could find in my mouth, no Homo" best line ever lol
If your not outraged your not paying attention good job!!! Thanks
Great history...
Doctors when glass was born: "It's a man!"
My second time around on this one. Next up....The Colorado Cannibal!!👍✌😎
The arikara village was near present day standing rock Sioux indian reservation SD.
Thank you very much 😊
Thank you Kenny Powers
Thank you, Erik
Fort Kiowa was across present day Chamberlain, SD west on top a hill.
I'd love to visit some of these spots one day. Lots of history.
@@WildWestExtravaganza thank very much. That's the same place we're sitting bull had his vision of the little bighorn and were he was killed near the grand river in SD. .
Made me chuckle with that Brendan Schaub line.
That friend of yours had better talk to you now for doing an awesome video lol
6/14/23.. New Subscriber as of now. Just listened to the Jeremiah Johnson story, and scrolled down to Hugh Glass. Next Jim Bridger..
Thanks for such a cool channel.
✌️😏💨☕️
Awesome! Welcome aboard!
I never knew about the gunsmith aspect.... that would have been worth more than gold back then. Think about it
IDK how I stumbled on your channel, very happy I did, I listened intently you have a great voice for this sort of thing... Now that was the ego building comment. Here comes the constructive criticism, actually just a smartass comment of my own. Shortly after the intro I'd say, you said Hugh thought of the white pirates, as the real savages,.. However,
a short time later you go on to say how hugh and his traveling mate,, somehow made it through 2 native tribes who were, "cannibals" that in my book would be the definition of "savages" ..
I guess I could be wrong, what say you,???
Thanks! One of the tribes I was referencing were the Karankawa. Widely believed to have been cannibals, this proved to be false and a lie spread by the Spanish. However, in Hughes day he surely would have heard about these coastal cannibals which, I think, only attests to how poorly he regarded the pirates. Can't speak for the Pawnee but in most instances you'll find that the rumors of Native Americans being cannibals were either just that - rumors - or due to ritualistic warfare type stuff like taking a bite of a dead opponents heart and spitting it out. I'm not aware of any tribes who regularly ate human flesh.
Being a native Wisconsinite the cannibal sandwich comment had me fucking rolling! Great job as always! Keep it going!
Prost from Cheeseland! 🥩 🍺
Prost!
"Give your heart to the hawks: A tribute to the mountain men" by Blevins. I think it's out of print, but Amazon has 1(?) for $18.00. Abe Books has a used copy for $5.00. Great book that would be right up your alley. I'm sure it's been out of print for years, but it's still out there. Definitely worth a look.
I have a copy! It's tattered but a dang good read.
Very good podcast. I love that movie 🎦
Thanks Kevin