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Louis, where teams of men were organized to venture up the Missouri River, as well as its tributaries. Often, financial backing was based out of St. Thus, endeavors like The Rocky Mountain Fur Company sprang into existence and vied with one another to gain strong footholds in prime furbearer sections of the enormous Missouri Territory. The lust for furs, hides, and pelts to propitiate European buyers played a major role in this westward expansion. Word had spread throughout our young nation of the vast areas of lands where a fortune might be made through the hunting and trapping of animals. It is also a time only 18 years removed from the return of Lewis and Clark from the Pacific and the triumphs of the Corps of Discovery. The time period is the early 1820's, when traders and fur companies were searching out domains in the Rocky Mountains, and in the present day states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, and the Dakotas.

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Though the book was published some years ago, it seems to be garnering more attention with a re-release, as well as anticipation of the movie THE REVENANT starring Leonardo DiCaprio, due out in January 2016.Īt any rate, the story centers around legendary 'mountain man' Hugh Glass. In these pages, we discover historical fiction at its best.

The word REVENANT is defined as 'a person who returns, especially supposedly from the dead.' There could be no better title for Michael Punke's high spirited western novel. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass

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