Lord Grizzly
Encyclopedia
Lord Grizzly is a biographical novel
by Frederick Manfred
. It describes the survival ordeal of a real mountain man
, Hugh Glass
, who was attacked by a bear and abandoned in the wilderness by his companions (one of whom was a young Jim Bridger
), on the assumption he could not possibly live. Glass, with a broken leg and open wounds, had to crawl most of the way to Fort Kiowa
to reach safety.
Lord Grizzly was Manfred's most successful book, and a finalist for the National Book Award
in 1954.
Biographical novel
The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional and usually entertaining account of a person's life. This kind of novel concentrates on the experiences a person had during his lifetime, the people he met and the incidents which occurred are detailed and sometimes...
by Frederick Manfred
Frederick Manfred
Frederick Feikema Manfred was a noted Western author.Manfred was born in Doon, Iowa. He was baptized Frederick Feikes Feikema, VII, and he used the name Feike Feikema when he published his first books...
. It describes the survival ordeal of a real mountain man
Mountain man
Mountain men were trappers and explorers who roamed the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through the 1880s where they were instrumental in opening up the various Emigrant Trails allowing Americans in the east to settle the new territories of the far west by organized wagon trains...
, Hugh Glass
Hugh Glass
Hugh Glass was an American fur trapper and frontiersman noted for his exploits in the American West during the first third of the 19th century....
, who was attacked by a bear and abandoned in the wilderness by his companions (one of whom was a young Jim Bridger
Jim Bridger
James Felix "Jim" Bridger was among the foremost mountain men, trappers, scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western United States during the decades of 1820-1850, as well as mediating between native tribes and encroaching whites...
), on the assumption he could not possibly live. Glass, with a broken leg and open wounds, had to crawl most of the way to Fort Kiowa
Fort Kiowa
Fort Kiowa was an 19th century American Fur Company trading post on the Missouri River near Oacoma, South Dakota. Fort Kiowa was the destination of Hugh Glass' several hundred mile crawl. The site is now underwater....
to reach safety.
Lord Grizzly was Manfred's most successful book, and a finalist for the National Book Award
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
in 1954.
Further reading
- Hugh Glass, Bruce Bradley (1999) ISBN 0-9669005-0-2
- Lord Grizzly, Fredrick Manfred. (1954) ISBN 0-8032-8118-8
- Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee and Mountain Man, John Myers MyersJohn Myers MyersJohn Myers Myers was an American writer, best known for his literary fantasy novel Silverlock.-Life:Myers was born in Northport, Long Island on January 11, 1906 to John Caldwell Myers and Alice MacCorry Myers and grew up in various places in New York, including New Paltz and NYC. He knew from the...
(1976) ISBN 0-8032-5834-8