The legend of Hugh Glass, the 19th-century mountain man who inspired Leonardo DiCaprio's character in The Revenant, began with one short sentence that would captivate America's imagination for centuries to come. Daniel Potts, who worked with Glass at the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, wrote a letter to his friends in 1824 about an unnamed man who, after narrowly surviving a skirmish with a Native American war party, "was allso tore nearly all to peases by a White Bear and was left by the way without any gun who afterwards recover'd." While Potts never mentions Glass by name in the letter,...
- 1/6/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
The legend of Hugh Glass, the 19th-century mountain man who inspired Leonardo DiCaprio's character in The Revenant, began with one short sentence that would captivate America's imagination for centuries to come. Daniel Potts, who worked with Glass at the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, wrote a letter to his friends in 1824 about an unnamed man who, after narrowly surviving a skirmish with a Native American war party, "was allso tore nearly all to peases by a White Bear and was left by the way without any gun who afterwards recover'd." While Potts never mentions Glass by name in the letter,...
- 1/6/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
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