Major Andrew Henry (c. 1775 – January 10, 1832) was an American miner, army officer, frontiersman, trapper and entrepreneur.
[1] Henry appears in the narrative poem the Song of Hugh Glass, which is part of the Neihardt's Cycle of the West.
Henry was born in or around 1776 in Fayette County, in the Province of Pennsylvania, and was tall and slender, with dark hair, blue eyes, and a reputation for honesty.
Mary Flemming was of French birth and considerably younger than Henry; the marriage was a happy one for them both and produced four children.
[1] The actor Tris Coffin played Henry in the 1966 episode, "Hugh Glass Meets the Bear", on the syndicated television anthology series, Death Valley Days.
John Alderson was cast as the rugged trail guide Hugh Glass, the trapper who was mauled by a bear, left for dead, but survived by crawling two hundred miles to safety.