Was hugh glass a real person
Hugh glass true story!
The Incredible True Story Behind The Revenant
ByMina Elwell
The 2015 film "The Revenant" won multiple Oscars for its depiction of a mountain man fighting to survive in the wilderness.
Both the film and the Michael Punke novel that it is based on were inspired by a genuine American frontier legend.
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"Glass was a campfire legend – and it's all true," lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio told Wired.
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Though many of the details of Glass' life have been lost to time, the protagonist Hugh Glass was a real man. As stated in Britannica, Glass was one of countless trappers in the American West who traveled into the Rocky Mountains to bring back furs.
They had to learn how to survive in the mountains and navigate the complex dynamics between the tribes that lived there. As is clear from the story of Hugh Glass, they also had to contend with wild animals.
Details about Hugh Glass' struggle for survival have very likely changed and been embellished through generations of retellin
