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Jun 11, 2014 · Discover Hugh Glass Monument in Lemmon, South Dakota: This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.
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Aug 29, 2023 · SDPB Radio | By C.J. Keene. Published August 29, 2023 at 7:35 AM CDT. Listen • 5:28. In the lonely buttes and bluffs of western South Dakota near Lemmon, about 140 miles north of Rapid City, it’s easy to imagine the 19 th century drama of Hugh Glass. The trapper was mauled by a bear and abandoned by his party in 1823.
A lonely monument marks the spot where Glass was attacked, standing at the end of a winding, unpaved road on a bluff near Shadehill, south of Lemmon, overlooking a man-made lake. The open grave that Fitzgerald and Bridger had dug for Glass was said to still be visible before water covered it in 1951.
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Jul 17, 2020 · Across the reservoir, situated on an overlooking bluff, stands a monument to Hugh Glass, fabled pirate turned fur trader and frontiersman. (A historical marker located near Shadehill in Perkins County, South Dakota.)
Hugh Glass Sculpture. At a place near present-day Lemmon, South Dakota, the legendary Hugh Glass was attacked by a Grizzly Bear protecting her two cubs. Glass fought for his life using only a knife and his bare hands. By the time the bear was killed, Glass was terribly mauled and mangled.
Nov 7, 2019 · Tweet. Last August, Lemmon-based artist John Lopez unveiled a new sculpture commemorating Hugh Glass, close to the spot where the legendary pioneer nearly lost his battle with an angry mother grizzly bear. The sculpture — depicting the pivotal moment in the Glass legend — comes at a time of renewed interest in his story.
Start your journey in the northern South Dakota town of Lemmon. You can almost hear the roar while looking at renowned artist John Lopez's sculpture in the Grand River Museum. Lopez used scrap metal — his preferred medium — to recreate the battle between Hugh Glass and a grizzly bear.
