Talk:Hugh Glass/Archives/2016

Ethnicity

Where does the evidence come from that Glass was Scots/Irish. Glass is a mainly English name and the book of the Revenant and other accounts I've seen mention his family being from England. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.255.233.147 (talk) 13:55, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Glass can be an Irish name, as much as it can be an English one. Many Northern Irish names are of Gaelic, Scottish, Norman French, or Old English origins. Glass (or Glas) is just one of many examples. 138.163.240.41 (talk) 21:39, 11 January 2016 (UTC) Woulfe, Patrick (Rev). "Irish Surnames." Ehttp://www.libraryireland.com/names/g/glas.php

The question remains unanswered. Kortoso (talk) 17:45, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Maggots question

"To prevent gangrene, Glass laid his wounded back on a rotting log filled with maggots and let the maggots eat the dead, infected flesh, from the rest of his healthy body." Do meat/dead flesh eating maggots live in dead wood? Seems a somewhat dubious claim. Mychair (talk) 03:57, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Yes, it's a very dubious claim. Such maggots are most likely from blow flies, and they lay their eggs on meat, long before it is rotten. The eggs become maggots very quickly and the maggots then begin to eat the meat. When hunting I have many times had to brush them off the reindeer I had shot. See my article here: Reindeer hunting in Greenland. -- BullRangifer (talk) 04:17, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

You definitely seem like more of a subject matter expert. Would you like to do what seems like a needed edit to the article? Mychair (talk) 14:25, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

I tweaked it so it's more realistic. -- BullRangifer (talk) 03:01, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Reads much better and it's always better when a pro makes the update rather than one of us newbies. Mychair (talk) 18:47, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Fitzgerald / Fitzpatrick

The article goes back and forth between naming the same person Fitzgerald and Fitzpatrick, clearly confusion caused from the novel/movie. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.156.136.229 (talk) 14:59, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Actually, the confusion seems to come from the fact that John Fitzgerald and Thomas Fitzpatrick were both members of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and of the Ashley expedition. According to the Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography, cited in-article, Fitzgerald was the one who abandoned Glass, and so I have edited the article accordingly. Moloch dhalgren (talk) 07:49, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Using one source to disclaim authencity

To use one source in order to claim the Hugh Glass story to be fictional is very poor documentation when there are many sources including letters that very much supports it. This is the reason why Wikipedia articles are viewed by many as nothing more than Internet tabloids.216.230.236.74 (talk) 20:20, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Glass letter to Gardner parents

I deleted it a few revisions ago, and have had a change of heart. I think it needs to be put more in context, and the reference states he was illiterate so may have dictated it to someone else so this should probably be clarified. For the time being I will just re-insert it. The problem in general with biographies of people who are otherwise historically unimportant but who were involved in an incident excites the imagination is that it is really hard to sort fact from fiction. It is a lot of work. LaurentianShield (talk) 21:23, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Deleted entry by anonymous editor on film The Bear

For one thing, the anonymous editor used "childhood memory" as the citation, which is unacceptable. However in addtion, I did find the film referred to: The Bear, directed by Edmond Séchan. From the synopsis it is hard to see any connection to the Hugh Glass story. LaurentianShield (talk) 15:09, 2 July 2016 (UTC)