Hugh Glass Journey

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Survival, the only reason we are here on this treacherous planet we inhabit. Survival can be the simplest task, or the most arduous struggle. Everyone has their own experience that entails them against the world, in a battle for their lives.
There is no other man that knows this more than Hugh Glass. Hugh Glass was a nineteenth century frontiers men; who while searching for food was attacked by a mother grizzly bear protecting her cubs. Desperately trying to reach for his firearm, however he failed. He ended up stabbing the bear several times. Fellow trappers saw his “dead” in an attempt to give him a funeral skinned the bear he had killed and place the bear hide over him. After regaining consciences he used the hide to keep warm. His journey

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