It comes about comes 24 minutes in. Fur-trapper Hugh Glass, played by a hirsute, bundled-up Leonardo DiCaprio, has helped his fellow trappers escape a harrowing Arikara massacre.

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.

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 ...

Survival thrillers put the spotlight on human resilience, pushing protagonists (and viewers) to the edge. With minimal dialogue and maximum tension, these movies are a masterclass in storytelling, ...

After raking up Oscar nominations year after year, Leonardo DiCaprio finally earned a golden statuette for playing the ravenous protagonist in The Revenant.

Neihardt penned Glass's ordeal of survival and forgiving the friends who left him for dead in a poem "The Song of Hugh Glass" in a little shed just a few yards away from where the monument now stands.

The story of frontiersman and trapper Hugh Glass is a thrilling one and it appears that... Hugh Glass, hero of Leonard DiCaprio's 'Revenant' had ties to Galveston area, pirate Jean Lafitte ...

In the traditional survival story, a lone man battles the elements, slays predators, and emerges as nature’s conqueror. Books ranging from “Jaws” to multiple accounts of Antarctic ...

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 ...