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The Highest Peak

by | Oct 29, 2023 | Classic True West, Features & Gunfights

Best of the Mountain Man Movies On the eve of the release of The Revenant, inspired by the true story of Hugh Glass’s fight for life, the film rights to the character of Grizzly Adams are up for bid and, across the country, hipsters dubbed “lumbersexuals” are sprouting facial hair and sporting flannel and buckskin.  Why the sudden appeal of the mountain man? Maybe because neither Grizzly Adams nor Hugh Glass ever said, “It takes a village.”    [caption id="attachment_13974


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