Later Years
Glass would again return to the frontier as a trapper and fur trader. Later he was employed as a hunter for the garrison at Fort Union. He was killed with two fellow trappers in the winter of 1833 on the Yellowstone River in an attack by the Arikara.
According to the book The Deaths of the Bravos by John Myers Myers, the Arikara in April 1833 later tried to pass themselves off as friendly Minitaris Indians to a party of trappers employed by Amfurco. However, Johnson Gardner, one of the trappers, recognized a rifle that one of the Indians had as the very rifle Glass got back from Fitzgerald after Fitzgerald and Bridger left him for dead in 1823. Alarmed by this, Gardner surmised that the Indians were actually the Arikaras. The Indians were seized and executed in response to the death of Hugh Glass.
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