Lord Grizzly

This is a fantastic book! I would like to use the term epic but it was nearly the opposite type of tale. The hero of the novel is Hugh Glass, an early American mountain man who was hired as a scout by the Rocky Mountain Fur Company to explore the upper Missouri country. Glass was accompanied by seve......more

This is one of two fictionalized versions of mountain man Hugh Glass' epic struggle for survival, the newer and more famous one being The Revenant. Thought I'd read this one first, since there was a long waiting list for Revenant at the library, but I almost gave up on it before I finished the first......more

I actually enjoyed this book, as much of a slog as it sometimes was and as gruesome a topic as it covered. Descriptions of the mauling that Hugh Glass underwent, his wounds, and what he had to do to find food and keep himself alive were very graphic. I had seen the movie, The Revenant starring Leona......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 coll......more

Waugh! Ae. Ho-ah. Tarnation! Hurray lads! I finished this wank of a book. There’s three pieces to this book, and two of them are mostly garbage. The first and third can mostly be summarized by this sentence: “Body Heat and fires stirred up odors of other times too— the scent of lovemaking with musky R......more