TIL of James Clyman, an American "Mountain Man" who wrote one of the accounts of Hugh Glass' bear mauling (subject of 'The Revenant' starring Leonardo Dicaprio) and advised the infamous Donner-Reed Party not to take their fatal shortcut along The Oregon Trail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clyman
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