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Summary Of Jon T. Coleman's 'Vicious'

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The author starts out stating that not much remains of Hugh Glass because after all, the only known direct source from Hugh Glass himself is a single letter. Because of this, not much is known about him, which the author states is why he chose him. No one knows of his opinions or his appearance. The only thing the author and other historians can definitely know for sure is that he had phenomenal survival skills. Hugh Glass was mauled by a female grizzly bear in the summer of 1823. The grizzly bear ripped huge pieces of Hugh Glass apart from his body. While the men who accompanied him during this time did end up killing the bear, they ultimately ended up fleeing the site because they felt they could not save him. They took his gun and knife, his only source of protection, and left Hugh Glass there to die. But, Hugh Glass did not die. Hugh Glass decided to crawl hundred of miles away to Fort Kiowa. The author views Hugh Glass as a mystery stating that this book is technically more of a missing person report than a biography of Hugh Glass because there is hardly any evidence recorded of his life other than the one letter he wrote, and what historians have heard from other people who have allegedly talked to him or people who knew him. …show more content…

Coleman, is a professor of American history at the University of Notre Dame. Jon T. Coleman is also the author of the book Vicious: Wolves and Men in America. This book won the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize. Jon T. Coleman feels and argues that Hollywood producers and other privileged Americans have used the legend and story of Hugh Glass to their almost wrongful advantage. He states that Americans valorized white male survivalists such as Hugh Glass and Jeddediah Smith, while ignoring and cutting out women and people of color. Coleman states that this only furthered our glorification of a unified white male American

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