In Here
Lies Hugh Glass , I tell a story about a man famous for
nearly being killed by a grizzly bear in the Rocky Mountains in 1823.
There's not much left of this man. He contributed one letter to history. He
spoke to people, but the writers who tracked him through twice-removed
conversations only disfigured him further with their literary ambitions,
calling him America's Odysseus, a laughable honorific for a working-class
guy whose major talent, accident proneness, made him more Homer Simpson
than Homeric.
Read on...
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