Synopses & Reviews
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A thrilling
tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American
frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman
Hugh Glass
The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky
Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among
the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert
tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a
grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two
Company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he
dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by
one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets
out crawling inch by inch across more than three thousand miles of
uncharted American frontier. The Revenant is a remarkable tale of
obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that
one man will go to for retribution.
Review
“One of the great tales of the nineteenth-century West.” The Salt Lake Tribune
Review
“A superb revenge story.” The Washington Post Book World
Review
“The makings of a Western classic, Michael Punke's novel The Revenant provides muscle and sinew to the vengeful and epic tale of mountain man Hugh Glass that even a sow grizzly couldn't rend asunder.” Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire novels
About the Author
Michael Punke serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade
Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also served on the White
House National Security Council staff and on Capitol Hill. He was
formerly the history correspondent for Montana Quarterly, and an adjunct professor at the University of Montana. He is the author of Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mine Disaster of 1917, and Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. His family home is in Montana.