At the beginning of 2015 a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio Survivor was released at the box office. But as you know the film is based on a true story which I would like to tell in more detail. Hugh glass is a famous American Pioneer Trapper and explorer. Who has gone down in history forever. Thanks to a miraculous rescue from the heart of the American tiger and Further Adventures here is what is known about him before the era of hydrocarbons when will it and Cole became the most valuable resources in the world. The fur of fur bearing animals played such a role from the very beginning of the development of the North American continent. European colonists began to buy skins from the Indians and extract. Them themselves this wealth was exported by. Hull ships to the old world the French joined the fur trade in the 16th century the British who founded trading posts in Hudson Bayne what is now Canada and the Dutch in the 17th century by the 19th century when the rapid development of Industry began an extensive network of trading companies engaged in the extraction and sale of Furs had already formed in North America for a long time for trapping was one of the pillars of the American economy long before the gold rush in California and Alaska thousands of professional Hunters rushed to the endless forests of the Northwest for Shaggy gold they were called Highlanders or Trappers. They not only disappeared in the forest four years setting stairs and hunting animals with firearms for their own benefit but also performed another important role. These were the first white people in completely wild and unexplored places it was they who threw out their. Journey fold out Diaries. Naps made sketches and notes about the rivers on which they sailed and about the people they met subsequently many of them began to serve as guides on scientific expeditions to accompany the first. Caravans of settlers along the Oregon Trail others founded trading posts along the routes of settlers or were hired as Scouts in the U.

S army during the Heyday of the fur trade. In the 1820s and 1840s about 3 000 people could call themselves. Highlanders one of them was Hugh glass who became a true American. Legend glass was born in 1780 into a family of Irish immigrants who lived in Pennsylvania since his youth he had felt a craving for adventure and distant unexplored lands attracted to young men better than any magnet and it becomes clear why they are of the famous conquest of the Western lands of North America began in the USA when every day more and more new groups of pioneers and explorers went further and further west many of them did not return the heroes of the Indians diseases predators and natural elements did their job but the wealth and mystery of distant lands did not stop more and more border guards from tiersmen the border in the 19th century was a zone between wild undeveloped Western lands and already annexed Eastern lands people who lived in this Zone were called border guards they worked as Hunters guides Builders explorers and contacted various Indian tribes it was dangerous and hard work interesting but full of hardships with the development of wild lands the Border shifted to these to the very eastern coast until it finally ceased to exist probably at a young age glass left home and went to the Border in search of Adventure and work most of the information about his youth is missing but we know that from 1816 to 1818 he was on the crew of a pirate ship that attacked Merchant ships sailing along rivers and along the Seacoast it is a known weather glass voluntarily joined the pirate squad or was captured leaving no other choice anyway two years later during another pirate raid glass decided to escape from the ship he jumped off the ship into the water and swam for kilometers to the Gulf Coast without any equipment he traveled North day after day and was eventually captured by the Pawnee Indians. Glass was lucky that the tribal leader allowed him to stay with the tribe and provided everything he needed the American lived with the Indians for three years.

Acquiring the skills of survival in the wild world and hunting animals learn the pony language and even married one of the Pawnee girls three years later as ambassador from Pani he went to meet with the American delegation and after negotiations decided not to return to the Indians in 1822. Glass decided to join the expedition of the famous entrepreneur. William Ashley who planned to explore the tributaries of the Missouri River in search of hunting grounds for a new Fur Company organized by William Ashley himself and his business partner. Andrew Henry many famous border guards and Trappers joined the Expedition. Hugh glass also decided to try his luck the acquired experience and excellent physical data scene to William Ashley sufficient and in early 1823 glass and a Detachment went on a hike a few weeks later explorers traveling up the Missouri. River were ambushed by hostel arakara Indians 14 people from the squad were killed and 11 including glass or injured. William and Andrew suggested moving on and passing the dangerous section of the river as quickly as possible but most of the Detachment believed that a large force of Indians would be waiting for them ahead and that continuing along the planned route would be tantamount to suicide after sending a boat with Wounded comrades down the river to the nearest Fort the Americans began to wait for reinforcements finally at the beginning of August additional forces came up and attacked the Rickers and drove them back to their settlements peace was made with the Indians and they pledged not to hinder the group of researchers in the future after that the volunteers who came to help went back since the confrontation with the Redskins led to significant delays William Ashley decided to divide his men into two groups and send them along to different routes in order to catch up and explore the area faster moreover although a non-aggression pact was concluded with arikara none of the Americans thought to trust the Indians preferring to leave the planned route along the Missouri River bless got into the second lineup which was led by Andrew Henry they had to leave the Missouri River and continue their Journey along one of its tributaries the Grand River another group rafted down the river and engaged in establishing trade relations with the Indians of the Crow tribe in order to somehow compensate for the losses from then successful start of the campaign both detachments were to meet at Fort Henry located Upstream cmap sometime after the division of the Detachment Andrew Henry's Detachment began to worry about the Mandan Indian Wars along the way they ambushed the Americans keeping them in constant tension the Border guards managed to avoid fatal accidents but they were exhausted and wanted to get out of the inhospitable Indian lands as soon as possible in early September 1823 plus and his group explored the Grand River Hugh acting as a hunter was tracking the deer near a temporary Camp when he suddenly came across a bare and to Cubs the enraged animal rushed at the man inflicting many terrible wounds and only the comrades who came to the screens were able to kill the grizzly but glass had already lost Consciousness by that time after examining the wounded man everyone came to the conclusion that glass was unlikely to last several days as luck would have it it was during these days that the Mandan Indians most annoyed the Americans and literally followed them on their heels any delay in advancing was tantamount to death and the bleeding glass would greatly slow down the progress of the squad at the general meeting.

A difficult decision was made. He was left in place along with two volunteers who would have buried him with all honors and then caught up with the squad. John Fitzgerald 23 years old and Jim Bridger 19 years old volunteered to carry out this Mission. A few hours later the main Detachment left the camp and continued on its way Walter.

Volunteers remain with the wounded herbalist. They were sure that he would die the very next morning but the next day and into and three days later he was still alive after briefly regaining. Consciousness glass fell asleep again and this continued for several days in a row the anxiety of the two volunteers about being discovered by the Indians grew and on the fifth day it turned into a state of panic finally Fitzgerald managed to convince Bridger that the wounded man would not survive anyway and that the Mandan Indians could discover them at any moment and a bloody massacre could not be avoided they left on the morning of the sixth day leaving nothing but a fur cape for the dying man and taking his personal belongings in the future they will catch up with their squad and inform Andrew Henry that they buried glass after he passed away. Glass woke up the next day lying under a fur. Cape from under a dead bear not seeing to Law Enforcement Officers nearby and discovering the loss of personal belongings. He immediately realized what had happened. His leg was broken. Many muscles were torn the wounds on his back were festering and every breath was given a sharp pain driven by the desire to survive and take revenge on the two fugitives he decided to get out of the Wilderness at any cost the nearest settlement of white people was Fort Kiowa located at a distance of about 350 kilometers from the place of the bear attack. Having roughly determined the southeasterly direction glass began to slowly crawl towards his intended target. In the first days he crawled no more than a kilometer eating roots and wild berries. Along the way sometimes dead fish were brought to the banks of the river and once he found the carcass of a dead bison half eaten by wolves and although the meat of the animal was a little rotten. It was that that allowed glass to get the energy necessary for further hiking by making something like a foothold and finding a stick that was comfortable to lean on when walking he managed to increase the speed of his movements two weeks after starting his journey the exhausted humidity group of friendly.

Lakota Indians who treated his wounds with herbal infusions gave him food and most importantly a canoe on which glass was eventually able to reach Fort Kawai. His journey took about three weeks for several days. Hugh glass was recovering healing. His terrible wounds after learning that the commandant of the fort had decided to send a group of five. Merchants to the Village of Mandana to restore friendly relations glass immediately joined the Detachment the Indian village was just Upstream of the Missouri and you hoped that by reaching Fort Henry he would be able to take revenge on Fitzgerald and Bridger for six weeks the Americans fought their way through the strong current of the river and when the Indian settlement was a Day's Journey away glass decided to leave his fellow Travelers as he considered it more profitable to walk to the village on foot instead of sailing boats against the current across the river Village there was a big bend of the River Head glass knew that the more time he saved the sooner he would find the Escape guards at the same time they were a car. Tribal wars were approaching the Mandan settlement other Indians were constantly at war with each other and inter-tribal hatred was often much stronger than hatred for the pale-faced Invaders this is what saved glass of the Warriors of the two tribes noticed the white man at the same time and it so happened that the Mandan Indians riding on Horseback were the first to be near him deciding to annoy their enemies they saved the Americans life and even delivered him safely to the nearest Trading Post of the American Fur Company. This is interesting. The merchants who accompany glass were much less lucky they were caught by the Oregon Indians who killed and scalped all five in late November.

Winter came to these parts unusually early. The river froze a cold. North Wind was walking on the Prairie and snow was falling the temperature at night could drop below 20 degrees below zero but the stubborn traveler went to his goal when he finally reached. Fort Henry on New Year's Eve class appeared before that as of the surprised members of his Squad Fitzgerald had left the fort a few weeks ago but Bridger was still here and glass went straight to him with the firm intention of shooting the traitor but after learning that young Bridger had recently married and his wife was expecting a child. Hugh changed his mind and forgave his former. Guardian glass stayed at the Fort for several months to wait out the coming cold weather and fulfill the task of the Fur Company to deliver the Skins to the Fort located Downstream of the Missouri River the Trappers consisting of five people went on a mission at the end of February one day they saw an Indian chief in punny clothes standing on the bank of the river and amiably inviting them to go ashore and have dinner at an Indian settlement confident that they were indeed ponies who were known for their friendliness towards the palafases the Trappers accepted the invitation. The chief did not know that glass had lived in the Pony Tribe for a long time and understood Indian dialects so when communicating with his surroundings he spoke arikara confident that Americans would not be able to understand the differences but glass realized that the Redskins wanted to outwit them and in fact it was arikara pretending to be punny luring them into a trap the Trappers rushed in different directions but two of them were immediately killed by the arrows of the Indians. The other two who were running in the opposite direction from glass disappeared into the forest and safely reached the fort and he who himself was again left alone in the dangerous. Forest which was ConEd by an enraged arikara but it was not so easy for the Indians to catch a seasoned fighter and a few days later glass safely reached the familiar Fort Kiowa where he had already come wounded after a bear attack there he learned that Fitzgerald had joined the U.

S army and was currently stationed at Fort Atkinson Downstream this time glass decided to focus entirely on Revenge on his former comrade and in June 18 21 for he reached the fort indeed Fitzgerald was in the fort but because he was a U.S. Army soldier glass was facing the death penalty for his murder. Perhaps this was what kept glass from retribution. Perhaps something else but after a while he gave up his revenge and decided to continue working as a Trapper and guide on the border the Indian arrow of the warrior erikar found him nine years later when he along with other. Trappers went to get a fur-bearing animal in the vicinity of the Missouri River a few months later a group of Pawnee Indians came to the Americans to establish trade relations one of Indians in the presence of the Trappers took a flask out of his bag and drank the hunters saw on the flaska characteristic pattern that Hugh glass had once painted on his flask. They were car. Indians who again tried to impersonate. Pani were shot on the spot based on real events the filmmakers emphasized to us but often when making films based on real events filmmakers take Liberty with facts. Some events are a little boring and they are neglected. Some events are thought out in such a way as to give the film entertainment and make the plot exciting intriguing interesting. The real story of the Survivor is not so spectacular but also admires the strength and thirst for life of the protagonist and yet in fact he forgave everyone was Hugh glass really a fur trapper yes a hunter and a Pioneer and this is one of the few facts that are known about him reliably in 1823. He signed a document. According to which he was to participate in the Rocky Mountain for company research Expedition organized by General William Henry Ashley who placed an advertisement for the recruitment of members of the expedition in the Missouri.

Gazette did Hugh glass really convince the hunters to abandon their boats and continue their Journey not along the river no after the first battle with the oricar. Indians the organizers of the Expedition General Ashley and major. Henry decided to go through the mountains did Hugh glass really have a Native American Wife. Little is known about glass life before the bear attack the hypothesis is also a marriage with an Indian woman with whom he allegedly fell in love when he lived in captivity with the Indians and according to Legend he was captured after escaping from the pirate. Gene Lafitte Hugh glass was an experienced Hunter and Explorer. And where and how he acquired these skills one can only guess. Was there really a grizzly bear attack on. Hue glass yes. This happened in the summer of 1823 five months after glass joined the Expedition the meeting with the Beast took place on the Missouri Shore the bear was with two Cubs and was very aggressive. She inflicted a huge amount of damage on him including breaking his leg and puncturing his throat glass's colleagues heard his screams rushed to his Aid and drove the bear away with shots. Are there any documentary evidence of this attack. No at least they. They weren't found although it is reliably known that. Hugh glass was littered. There is a letter that he wrote to the parents of. Hunter John Gardner who died during the attack of the Expedition by the arikara tribe some papers among the documents of the organizers of the Expedition characterize him as not an ordinary person with a difficult character but they do not leave us information about the incident however there are stories written from the words of eyewitnesses so the story of the attack appeared in 1825 in the Philadelphia literary magazine. She quickly spread throughout the states and became a legend. Is the real story happening in Winter.

No at least not all of it. The attack on the bear occurred in the summer. Did the members of the Expedition really leave. Hugh glass to die alone. Yes assuming that the hunter was mortally wounded the leaders of the Expedition paid to other Hunters to stay with him until the end and bury him according to Christian Customs. They stayed with glass for several days. The exact number is unknown and then they placed him in a shallow grave collected all the weapons and supplies and left to catch up with the Expedition. Did the hunters really kill. Hugh glass son. No this part of the film is pure fiction. There is no evidence that glass had children and even more so that these children were killed in front of his eyes but revenge for my son is a more interesting plot move than revenge for myself did Hugh glass really sleep in animal carcasses. This is a known but sleeping in animal. Carcasses is not uncommon in various survival tactics this and other details of glass's Journey emerged in the course of numerous retellings of his Macabre Adventure did Hugh glass really crawl to 100 miles 320 kilometers. Hugh glass crawled for six weeks the distance that he overcame changed and Grew From retelling to retelling and now it is not possible to establish it did. Hugh glass really take revenge on the hunters who abandoned him no. Hugh glass did catch up with John Fitzgerald and Jim Bridger but forgave them both what happened to Hugh glass. After this story ended almost nothing is known about this except that he continued to work as a hunter on the Yellowstone River was Hugh glass really killed by Indians. Yes according to an article in the Milwaukee Journal a visitor to Fort Union shared news of the Hunter's death old glass and to Companions went to Fort castaunt a bear and as they crossed the river on Ice they were shot and scalped by the arakara. Indians it happened in 1833.