I read the story of Jim Bridger when I was a kid and when I saw the movie I was so disgusted with it it is unreal. The real story is 10 times better than that movie and if they had just made it exactly as it happened it would have been so much better. The things that man went through to get to the Fort is unbelievable

Although I'm a little late, these are my comments. The valley of the Grand River is in South Dakota and it was where the north and south fork of the Grand came together that he was mauled. He crawled those incredible miles through dry prairie to make it back to the fort. Your pronounciation of Arikara seems to be straight from Wiki. They and the locals pronounce it Ah-rick-ah-raw. The tribe, of which my brother is a member, prefer Sahnish. You confused some of the detail after he met with Jim Bridger. And last being able to write was probably an accomplishment in that day and age. And the grammar was appropriate for the time period. Good luck on your future videos. Doug, a South Dakotan

The precise facts are hard to know with legendary men of that time. Still, the bare minimum of accuracy in stories of Glass show he was as tough as the toughest frontiersman. Entertaining video,good job!

Some of these comments are interesting in that they insist that The Revenant isn't true to the story or that Richard Harris's movie is better. But the narrator here is clear that all we know of the story is Yount's written account of what Glass told him 10 years after it happened. So it's one man's memory of another man's memory of the events. How can we know, nearly 200 years later, exactly what happened and, so, how can we assess the accuracy of one movie over another? Like the movie or don't but don't pretend to know which story is most accurate.

The real story is so much more interesting than the movie.

Glass's situation exceeded the story times 2 or 3. It was a small sample of what he went through. He crawled on his knees for hundreds of miles.

He was born in Scranton Pa. about 2 hours north of Philly

Man in the wilderness with Charlton Heston was also based on Hugh glass. Also a very good movie

Brilliant! Well researched and presented...

Quick reflection establishes the following - in no particular order: 1. Historically the events did not take place in the winter - UNTIL Glass reascended the river and eventually caught up with the Henry group - including the unidentified youth in the abandoning pair (usually ASSUMED WITHOUT HARD FACTS to be Jim Bridger.) 2. NO ONE DIED and NO ONE WAS KILLED. 3. There is no evidence Glass was ever married, although he may have taken or been given an Indian wife while held as a prisoner/adopted son. Further, IF he did have a wife AND IF the union produced a son, said son would not have been old enough to be on the Henry expedition. There may be more but the above quickly come to mind as GROSS errors in the movie

Indeed, I hale from Lemmon South Dakota, our little town is about 15 miles North of where the attack took place, the exact location is now beneath the waters of the Shadehill Dam There is a monument on the hill overlooking the location of the attack. Believe me, that crawl through the high prairies of South Dakota was indeed legendary, rivers and creeks are few and far between. I believe he would have followed the flow of these rivers or creeks as best he could as they would have offered him the most rare of commodities in this part of the world, water.

this was great

This happened in south Dakota not Colorado.

Great job

Well done

Yes it’s a true story but ,The revenant is a remake of “man in the wilderness” from the early 70’s

People today have no idea of what tough is.

Very good video indeed

yes it is loosely based on Hugh Glass

A - RIK -ARA TRIBE

So agreeing to disagree wasn't an option then? 🤦🏽‍♀️Men

It's pronounce as- a-rick-a-rah.

Awsome movie. But not educational.

Pronounced... La-feet....

Man in the Wilderness wirh Richard Harris much better

so he never got his revenge on Fitzgerald?

The movie was a sham. They did not use much of the true story. It was so fake when the water shot out of his neck when he drank....ya, true to life.... I am tired of fake movies.

B.S. story

Obumer enough said

The Revenant is garbage. They should have named it "Leonardo DiCaprio Makes Faces". That would be MUCH closer to the truth about this movie. Arikara ... uh - rick - er - ra. Kiowa ... ky - oh - wa.