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Lord Grizzly
Hunter, trapper, resourceful fighter, and scout, Hugh Glass was just a rugged man among other rugged American frontiersmen until he was mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his best friends. Hugh’s rage drove him to crawl two hundred miles across dangerous territory to seek revenge until he was no longer Hugh Glass but had become Lord Grizzly.
Lord Grizzly is the s
...morePaperback, 352 pages
Published
September 1st 1994
by Signet
(first published March 1st 1954)
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Frederick Manfred is one of the great lost American writers, and Lord Grizzly is a fine introduction to his huge body of work. Set in the high plains during the 1820s, Lord Grizzly is based on the real-life story of a mountain man, left for dead by his companions after a near-fatal mauling by a mother grizzly, who literally crawled his way back to civilization over untold miles of wilderness prowled by hostile natives. Manfred has an amazing gift for conveying strange states of mind, and there a...more
Whoa boy. That Frederick Manfred sure is something else. Despite myself, I really, really liked this book. I kind of didn't want to. The main character is enormously selfish, balls-out, over-the-top, sexist, racist, and hypocritical, but, my god, the detail in this book is second to none. Manfred can describe a guy wrastling with a bear, the wounds festering, the crawl back to civilization, the dark thoughts that cloud a person in pain. And, I learned a lot, albeit subjectively through the eyes...more
When I was a kid, my parents used to drop me off at Blue Mounds State Park in Luverne, Minnesota, near the confluence of that state, South Dakota, and Iowa. Not only were the park’s pink, quartzite cliffs spectacular, but in the distance I could see buffalo grazing, and nearby was the futuristic-looking (this was the 1960s) home of a real curiosity: a man who wrote books for a living, name of Frederick Manfred.
So it was with a mix of nostalgia and intrigue that I recently picked up Manfred’s "L...more
So it was with a mix of nostalgia and intrigue that I recently picked up Manfred’s "L...more
The survival story of Hugh Glass is as close to mythic as is possible in reality. Several novels (WILDERNESS; REVENANT), an atrocious film (MAN IN THE WILDERNESS, which turns the Glass character into a 19th century McGyver) and an excellent biography by John Myers Myers attest to the interest Glass's story still holds 190 years later.
Frederick Manfred's LORD GRIZZLY is a fine fictional account of the legendary ordeal, but it is also an accurate and loving portrait of the Mountain Men of the 182...more
Frederick Manfred's LORD GRIZZLY is a fine fictional account of the legendary ordeal, but it is also an accurate and loving portrait of the Mountain Men of the 182...more
This is a book I've been meaning to read for decades. My niece reminded me about it recently, when she was raving about it. It was handed about and admired in my family, and it's a fictionalized account of a bit of South Dakota history. And Manfred came and spoke in a literature class I took in college, so I feel sort of connected to him.
He's a great storyteller. His writing is very vivid, at times too much so. The time he is writing about includes a lot of fairly disgusting things -- early 19t...more
He's a great storyteller. His writing is very vivid, at times too much so. The time he is writing about includes a lot of fairly disgusting things -- early 19t...more
An excellent novel based on the true life story of Hugh Glass, American hunter and trapper. After being mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead, he crawled over a hundred miles to a US Army fort.
Holy crap i have forgotten about this book! It's a true account of a mountain mans revenge against the men left him for dead. I'm gonna have to read this again....
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Incredible. True story of a man left for dead after being mauled by a grizzly bear. He crawled for over 200 miles to track down the men that left him.
Dec 05, 2007
Will Klein
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
lovers of language, man v nature, wanderlust, frontier
Wow. As an armchair historian of the American West/Frontier period, of course I'd heard of the long crawl of Hugh Glass, and come across it in a number of western anthology books (the slightly higher brow crowd, less prone to Louis L'Amour reprints)... but I'd never fallen in love with anything more than the concept, the idea of the legend.
Then I read Manfred's Lord Grizzly, which is an exercise in colloquialism, storytelling, and voice. It's terse Americana, and made me want to go back to the R...more
Then I read Manfred's Lord Grizzly, which is an exercise in colloquialism, storytelling, and voice. It's terse Americana, and made me want to go back to the R...more
One of the few books that I HAD to read in High school that I really enjoyed. I couldn't put it down. I would recommend this book.
Today I am going to talk to you about my book. As you can see the book is called Lord Grizzly. The book is about a trappper and a hunter going out into the wilderness with a group of people. He goes out on his own to go hunt but when he gets beaten close to death by a grizzly bear. His friends are expeting him to die so the leader leave two people behind to buiry him when he dies. But indians come and the two guys have to leave Hugh. They all expect him to die. But the story is different, he liv...more
This book had a 3 star until the end. Good at times but I can't believe people actually talked like that. The ending was rushed.
3.5
the story of hugh glass, a trapper left for dead by his companions who crawls several hundred miles to get revenge on them for abandoning him in hostile country in the dakota territories. a great revenge story, along the lines of the count of monte cristo, only this one's based in fact and much shorter.
Manfred should be held in highest esteem. Possessing the courage to slither along the South Dakota landscape to tell this tale is dedication rarely found. More a novel of the soul than of the West, Lord Grizzly testifies that Manfred's accuracy in storytelling is unparalleled.
I read this book in high school. They had many copies of it in the book room, but it was deemed too violent for us to read. I tracked it down again and reread it. Survival and moral quandaries... I enjoyed this thoroughly.
I really wanted to read this book but the dialog is just so hard to follow, and the story drags in parts. This is based on real life events, so maybe I'll try and pick it up again at another time.
Hand to hand combat with a grizzly bear. Enough said.
After being attacked by a grizzly, Hugh Glass goes after the men in his party who left him for dead. He seeks revenge, but gets so much more.
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