Lord Grizzly

It describes the survival ordeal of a real mountain man, Hugh Glass, who was attacked by a bear and abandoned in the wilderness by his companions (a young Jim Bridger and John S. Fitzpatrick), on the assumption he could not possibly live.

Glass, with a broken leg and open wounds, had to crawl most of the way to Fort Kiowa to reach safety.

Due to his expanding family and debt, the author started a poll at a street corner in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in order to determine if changing his name would help improve the sale of his books.

Manfred asked a groceryman, milkman, and fuel seller in the neighborhood if he could pay them in a few months as a favor.

[4] The husband of Manfred's daughter Freya, Tom Pope, produced a screenplay for Lord Grizzly, but studios were not interested at the time due to it being a western.