Even if you haven’t seen “The Reverant” with Leonardo De C, you know it was loosely based on the true story of mountain man Hugh Glass getting mauled by a Grizzly in 1823. A very good authentic biography is The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man by John Myers Myers. It is one amazing story, rather unbelievable but highly researched and documented. The title gives a hint of his escapades and thrilling escapes. He got away, primarily unscathed, numerous times. I was surprised to learn that some SW Indian tribes were cannibalistic but one group ate only the hands and feet of their victims to absorb the strengths of those appendages. I also didn’t know that some native American Nations used to sacrifice young virgin girls from their own ranks but eventually wised up and only used preteen maidens captured from other tribes. Keep your babes close by. I actually suggest instead of reading this book, you just go on line and read the True Facts about Hugh Glass. You won’t get all the entertaining gore but I felt this author was showing off his way with words. Take one of his final paragraph as an example:”Older literatures have saved nothing like it [Hugh’s bio]. For by the time Sumerians had begun saving tales in cuneiform, the wilderness had been left so far behind that any remembered prowlers of it could be seen only through the smoky lenses of myth. The world had to wait another six thousand years before the lost chance turned again. Then the American plunge westward made something besides savages at home in the primordial-and this time literacy was more or less watching.” Brian