Scott NC Posted May 28, 2024 Posted May 28, 2024 I have enjoyed John Lopez's work for some time, but recently found this sculpture online which I missed. I thought I would share it. It was unvieled at a previous Hugh Glass Rendezvous. You can read "The Saga of Hugh Glass" by Myers and it is very good and worth your time. There is a nice historical marker btw Here's a short history. https://hughglass.org/grizzly-attack/ Quote
Scott NC Posted May 28, 2024 Author Posted May 28, 2024 I was going to edit, but there are a lot of conflicting stories about this. Quote
George N. M. Posted May 28, 2024 Posted May 28, 2024 If you haven't seen it, the 2015 film "The Revenant" starring L. DiCaprio is a pretty good retelling of the Hugh Glass tale. G Quote
Rojo Pedro Posted May 28, 2024 Posted May 28, 2024 Great read and awesome statue. Thanks - I am going to google Lopez right now Also wasn't there a 70’s movie about this as well? I remember an overland boat, bear attack and left for dead…. Quote
Direwolf Posted May 28, 2024 Posted May 28, 2024 Cool sculpture! There was indeed a movie made in 1970 or 1971 called Man In The Wilderness. I saw it when it came out I think Richard Harris played the Hugh Glass character. If you like that kind of survival stories I have a book called Desperate journeys Abandoned Souls written by Edward E. Leslie it is a great read and I would reccomend checking it out. Quote
Scott NC Posted May 29, 2024 Author Posted May 29, 2024 I guess I don't watch many movies but will look into those. I read more than watch, mostly. Thanks for the suggestions though. I got the reading bug from my dad. Here's a suggestion, check out Mari Sandoz. She wrote about beaver trappers, buffalo shooters, Indian life, homesteaders, etc..... Some of her writing is incredibly boring and some of it is wildly gritty. What ever you do, don't read Slogum House. She was a Nebraskan! And Mountain Men. Too late to edit. Quote
George N. M. Posted May 29, 2024 Posted May 29, 2024 Back in the late '70s Martha and I went to see the movie "Jeremiah Johnson" at the drive in theater in Riverton, WY. It is located by the Wind River and about 2-300 yards from the site where the fur trapper rendezvouses were held back in the day. We thought the coincidence was pretty cool. G Quote
Rojo Pedro Posted May 29, 2024 Posted May 29, 2024 And try: Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America Amazing first hand story of the first European to travel into the interior of the western US after being shipwrecked off the texas coast in 1523. He happened to walk right through my neck of the woods with hundreds of indigenous followers who thought he had magical healings abilities, which he probably did considering that his brand of medical witchcraft was probably a little more advanced than the locals. Super cool read and supposedly the first written description of a north Atlantic hurricane. Quote
Tommie Hockett Posted June 11, 2024 Posted June 11, 2024 The wilderness series by David B. Coe iirc the author. Very good series about Nate King. Another mountain man. Extreme license taken to make the novels but all based off of his journal entries. As for Hugh glass awesome story would live to know the true one as someone above stated there are a lot of conflicting stories. Most point toward the fact that his quest for revenge was over the theft of his possibles bag and rifle he didn't have a son like in the revenant. But it made for good on screen drama.... sorry I'm a mountain man nerd. Awesome statue! Quote
George N. M. Posted June 11, 2024 Posted June 11, 2024 Also, unsurprisingly, they omitted the fact that (John) Jeremiah Johnson was known as "Liver Eating Johnson" who would cut out the livers of the Crow warriors he killed and eat them. If you are interested read "Crow Killer, the Saga of Liver Eating Johnson" by Thorp and Bunker. It's available on Amazon. Interestingly enough, Johnson went on to serve in the Civil War and died in a VA hospital in Los Angeles in 1910. You should try to get out here to the Rocky Mountains some time and attend one or more Rendezvous. The one at Ft. Bridger, WY in August (IIRC) is a good one. If you get out here I can show you some places that are pretty unchanged since the fur trade days. And don't miss Coulter's Hell (now known as Yellowstone National Park). I've done some buckskinning and one of my old friends is heavily into it and does world class bead work. G Quote
Tommie Hockett Posted June 11, 2024 Posted June 11, 2024 (edited) I would love to go to a rendezvous, the challenge lies in traveling while having a lot of critters. There are some here in Texas but they take their stuff very seriously and you have to be a member of their buckinners group all of that. Not open to the public. Edited June 11, 2024 by Mod30 Excessive quoting Quote
Scott NC Posted June 12, 2024 Author Posted June 12, 2024 Tommie, I made a buckskinner sculpture for the ol buzzard that headed up the rendezvous back home. He was most serious about it. Most serious. I call him a buzzard but he called me things too. I have Rojo's reccomend on on the way and will look into all others. I might need a new bookcase soon. I hate piling them up.... Quote
Tommie Hockett Posted June 14, 2024 Posted June 14, 2024 On 6/12/2024 at 2:22 PM, Scott NC said: Tommie, I made a buckskinner sculpture for the ol buzzard that headed up the rendezvous back home. He was most serious about it. Most serious. I call him a buzzard but he called me things too. I have Rojo's reccomend on on the way and will look into all others. I might need a new bookcase soon. I hate piling them up.... Well sir I have bad news. The wilderness series has 58 books in total Quote
Frosty Posted June 14, 2024 Posted June 14, 2024 Are you going to build a glass book case for the series, Scott? Frosty The Lucky. Quote
Scott NC Posted June 14, 2024 Author Posted June 14, 2024 Nice, Jerry... I can count on you. I tried to fit hugh and huge together and tie it into a hugh/huge glass book case but got a headache. Tommie, that's a lot. I made a vow to never have such a big collection overall, ever again, after I had to cull a lifetimes library to move, recently. Is there a condensed version? I'll move again, someday. I certainly not staying here. Quote
Frosty Posted June 14, 2024 Posted June 14, 2024 Audio books don't take up much space, I'll have to check when we get home. Writing myself a note now. Frosty The Lucky. Quote
Scott NC Posted June 14, 2024 Author Posted June 14, 2024 I guess I'm old fashioned, to my own detriment. Quote
Tommie Hockett Posted June 19, 2024 Posted June 19, 2024 On 6/14/2024 at 3:30 PM, Scott NC said: Nice, Jerry... I can count on you. I tried to fit hugh and huge together and tie it into a hugh/huge glass book case but got a headache. Tommie, that's a lot. I made a vow to never have such a big collection overall, ever again, after I had to cull a lifetimes library to move, recently. Is there a condensed version? I'll move again, someday. I certainly not staying here. Lol I agree with frosty audio or E books. But I'm a bibliophile I like paper copies. But I also hate packing and unpacking Quote
Frosty Posted June 19, 2024 Posted June 19, 2024 Me too, I don't even know how many printed books I have, boxes and boxes in the basement. Unfortunately arthritis in my thumbs makes holding a paperback or hardback open painful after way too short a time. Audio doesn't cut it for reference though. I'm betting in a very few years I'll be able to access most any book as video files on a Sci Fi pair of glasses or directly via implant. The implant might even convey the smell of a newly opened book. Frosty The Lucky. Quote
Scott NC Posted June 24, 2024 Author Posted June 24, 2024 Why stop there? . Maybe you could smell the main character in the story frying up some bacon in a pan also? Maybe smell dirty socks? It would be the authors option. Opens up a lot of possibilities you know. How about if he/she stubbed their toe? Would you feel it? I'd hate to feel falling off a cliff onto some jagged rocks, you know. Implants may not work pleasantly, and backfire on you. Probably not, just saying.... Quote
Scott NC Posted June 24, 2024 Author Posted June 24, 2024 On the upside you may be able to dial in only pleasant things. I think AI may be unpredictable is all. It's doing odd things already. Quote
Frosty Posted June 24, 2024 Posted June 24, 2024 Oh sure, smellevision is an old concept, I think the first time I ran across it was in an Asimov or Clark story. Before I allowed an implant I'd want some pretty serious anti-malware, I'm running a couple strong ones and using Duck Duck Go which is another strongly anti-malware, add, etc. site. Still adds get through, no viruses though so okay. . . on my laptop, in my head maybe not! I certainly won't be buying onto a cutting edge version! Don't forget taste, aches and pains and sudden death! But oh BOY the adventures I've read and wouldn't mind experiencing. Imagine the smell of the Tyrannosaur's breath as it sniffs past where you're hiding, not that you're system wouldn't be pumped so full of adrenaline you couldn't our run it, still. There'd have to be a built in system to prevent major health issues like heat failure or blowing arteries from blood pressure spikes. Be F U N though! Frosty The Lucky. Quote
JHCC Posted June 24, 2024 Posted June 24, 2024 37 minutes ago, Frosty said: smellevision is an old concept, I think the first time I ran across it was in an Asimov or Clark story. Aldous Huxley had a version called "the feelies" (a film shown in a special theater with equipment that allowed viewers to share the physical sensations of what was depicted on the screen) in "Brave New World" (written in 1931, published in 1932). Quote
Scott NC Posted June 24, 2024 Author Posted June 24, 2024 And who could forget "The Tingler" with Vincent Price, where they put buzzers under the theater seats. Might have had smell ejectors as well, but I don't know. Quote
Frosty Posted June 24, 2024 Posted June 24, 2024 "The Feelies"! Oh yeah. I wasn't too impressed with "Brave New World" but remember parts of it. I could Scott, I have vague memories after doing a web search. I don't recall who it was but some fellow tried making full sensory movies that had scents as the main new thing. The deal killer was clearing one scent so the next one could make it's cue. IIRC It only showed a couple times and actually took several days to get the sickening miasma cleaned out so anybody could watch a movie. Frosty The Lucky. Quote
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