That Hugh Glass was one tough hombre. As The Revenant (starring Leonardo DiCaprio) expands nationwide Friday, it poses the question of just who the legendary 19th-century frontiersman really was.

Since it was released last weekend into theaters Leonardo DiCaprio's new film "The Revenant" has made close to $100 million and snagged 12 Oscar nominations. The story of frontiersman and trapper ...

Hugh Glass never did kill John Fitzgerald after he survived his harrowing wilderness ordeal where he had to crawl and stumble for months over several hundred miles of wild plains before floating ...

But the story, like Glass, is full of holes. I have now read every scrap of evidence surrounding Hugh Glass and his ordeal and have come to the conclusion that he existed mostly as a figment of ...

But Hugh Glass was a real person, and The Revenant only touches on a fraction of his incredible life’s story. Glass wasn’t well known before the attack that occurred during the expedition.

His character, Hugh Glass, was mauled (and/or raped) by a bear, lost his son, and generally had a pretty rough time in his outdoors adventure. It’s an intense movie, ...

FARGO — Hugh Glass had quite the resumé, even for a mountain man. His life story, with important connections to what would become Dakota Territory, has inspired songs, poems, novels and now a ...

As I left the theater after viewing the award-winning movie “The Revenant,” I thought, “Hugh Glass must be spinning in his grave.” The movie was never meant to be an accurate historical ...

A Western pioneer named Hugh Glass lost a fight with a grizzly bear in the summer of 1823 in what is now South Dakota. Slashed to the bone head to toe from the beast’s razor-sharp claws, Glas… ...

The story of Hugh Glass, the rugged 19th-century mountain man who survived a grizzly bear attack and crawled 200 miles to safety, and the Nebraska poet who immortalized him takes yet another twist ...

He inspired an Oscar-winning film and performance, and his story is one of the most famous in South Dakota history, but the truth behind Hugh Glass is still largely a ...

Concrete pillar in South Dakota honors Hugh Glass, a frontier mountain man who crawled, limped and paddled 200 miles after being mauled by a grizzly bear -- depicted in the movie "The Revenant.' ...