Punke, Michael

After fur trapper Hugh Glass is viciously mauled by a grizzly bear, he seeks revenge on the two men of his hunting party who robbed him and left him for dead. With grit and determination, Glass sets out crawling inch by inch across more than three thousand miles of uncharted American frontier in 1823.

In 1823, frontiersman Hugh Glass of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company is mauled nearly to death by a grizzly bear. Abandoned by his peers, Glass fights back from death and sets out across uncharted American territory battling human and animal predators as well as starvation and infection to get revenge.

Recounts scientist, journalist, and conservationist George Bird Grinnell's efforts to protect a herd of wild American buffalo in the last three decades of the nineteenth century.