A monument near Shadehill Reservoir marks the region where frontiersman Hugh Glass was mauled by a grizzly bear in 1823 and later began his legendary survival journey. The event became the basis for generations of frontier storytelling and eventually inspired The Revenant.
Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.
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Source: travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/follow-trail-hugh-glass-south-dakotas-revenant