I heard a different version. Both guys were in the same canoe, Colter in front and Potts in the rear, as they were finishing up checking traps the sun was barely rising and it was getting just light enough to see. (they only trapped at night and hid all day from the Blackfeet) They were almost done and Colter heard a rustling on the bank of the river, the bank being 10 to 15' higher than the water. He looked up and there were a few dozen braves standing there, arrows at full draw. The braves signed for them to beach the canoe, once they did Colter stepped out and Potts tried to raise his gun. Potts was hit with over a dozen arrows and died. The braves pulled Colter up the bank and stripped him naked while they desecrated the corpse of Potts, thats when the chief asked him if he was a good runner. Colter signed no and thats when the race was on. The last brave to keep pace was faltering and when he threw his lance at Colter it fell short, Colter turned and grabbed the lance and stuck the guy with his own lance, providing for his escape. Colter ran so far and so fast his entire chest was covered in his own blood. The movie was supposed to come out a few years ago but Im betting Hollyweird never releases it due to all the woke bullshit ruining the industry anymore.
I have heard that version, but decided to go with the canoe account because it's more common. However, theres always a bit of "telephone game" with these accounts, so either could be true. Either way: Colter sure could run! Thank you for contributing to the conversation and for watching!
@@historyattheokcorral : For sure, none of us will ever know the details but dang, its one of the craziest "out West" stories of all time, thanks for putting this together. We need that movie to get made tho!
Sounds more feasible, especially the spear bit. Hollywood have never ( today or ever) covered accurately what the Indians did to men women and children that they captured. They are happy to spew out films like Saw but shy away from the re enacting the truth. Btw Marathon Man with Dustin Hoffman could be loosely based on this.
So to summarise , he originally went into Blackfoot country and was attacked and injured by them. So he went back with his mate. His mate was murdered and they covered Coulter with his entrails and gore. Then said run ....we are right behind you. Incredibly he escaped, and that's where the story should end...but no!! He then goes back into that territory with a bunch of other people and they all get slaughtered by the Blackfoot. Its only at this point that he decided to go and not come back. Personally I wouldn't have pushed my luck that far.
@@robertburns3014 Being tortured to death by Indians ( as was the culture of many of the tribes) would have ensured that I kept as far away from them as physically possible.
Hugh Glass, after recovering from the grizzly attack, was going down the Platte River in bull boats (skin-covered, wooden-framed) and were waived over to a group of friendly Indians and their village, and campfires. They joined the band, after a spell, it occurred to Glass that these Indians were not friendly and quietly informed the other fellow trappers with him in the camp, to run for their lives, and that's what they did. Glass got to the river and forded the Platte and the Indians descended on the other men. Glass ran until he was clear of the camp. He was alone again. Boat, rifle, powder and shot gone. All Hugh Glass had was his flint and steel, his clothes and his moccasins. He then walked from present-day Scottsbluff to Chamberlain, SD, where Ft. Kiowa was. His SECOND such survival trip to Ft. Kiowa. As the first time he crawled from present-day Lemmon, SD.
It needs its own episode really. We always have a hard time deciding what to condense. Have you even seen Steve Rinella's video where he builds and uses a bull boat? It looks pretty tough to do.
@@historyattheokcorral Understand completely, rather than condense, I'm looking to do a complete overview of the main characters in the fur trade of the 1820s on the upper Missouri, and present it as a whole like American Experience, which I find to be the smartest documentaries on television this side of the incomparable Ken Burns. Arikara tribes: Lewis & Clark visited them in 1804 on the Missouri and presented a few select chiefs with customary gifts. Unbeknownst to them, the other Arikara chiefs were enraged and it caused a terrible rift as there were nearly 200 chiefs in that Arikara tribe. In 1822, that same tribe caused the first recorded attack on European settlers by plains Native Americans in our nation's history. That battle was depicted in the opening scenes of 'The Revenant.' It was not close to the actual attack, which was done by the Arikara during a parlay in which the fur trappers were attempting to trade for horses, for portage for the Yellowstone.
You see, I'm not expert in Indian tribes of that period, but when the phrase " they were waved over by friendly Indians" my reaction was "Wtf were they thinking?".
use to really believe that the white man was wholly and completely morally culpable in other words the white man was the baddie, thank you for educating us to the real history of the old west
I thought it was rod stringer, in run of the arrow, got a copy of it, must watch it again see if ralph meeker in it, been yrs since I watched it, not the best copy going around🤔😅
The movie The Naked Prey by Director and starring Cornel Wilde was supposed to be about this event but budgetary constraints had him film it in Africa with a similar but “Hollywood-Ized storyline. Still a really good movie about an incredible story
@@Icebergeificationyet the tribes,invaded ,and stole the land from those before them,the ones they called " The Tall White Ones". go stuff it wokeboy!
There was one (see my earlier comment) It’s called the Naked Prey by Cornel Wilde. Due to budget restrictions he had to film in Africa. However he storyline was based on this event. However highly dramatized. Still a great movie It has a Wikipedia page. Check it out
I heard of a JTF2 veteran who for survival training would go into Algonquin completely naked with a knife and start by killing beaver in their hut. Come out a month later on other side in full set of clothing, bow etc I wonder if he came up with the idea from this story. Clearly Blackfoot never considered something this mad
@@historyattheokcorral This is second hand story. My former boss served in RCAF and this guys was his friend from way back. I personally never met him. He was doing this back in the 90s. From what he said the getting beaver in the hut was the simplest way to get some clothing and food. He would progress from that to making traps, weapons etc. He also knew a lot about navigation in Ontario. In particular he found and recorded a lot of the very old portages, apparently tribes that lived in the area marked them by bending trees in certain way. Once he figured it out he could follow really old routes that nobody remembers now. Having said all that, my boss liked telling a good story.. so I am not 100% sure this is all completely true. But I think it is more or less true, he also was an avid canoeist and done some very long linkups stretching through half a province. I do canoe tripping as well but nothing that hard, still following the old trade routes for example through French river to Georgian bay is super interesting.
We controlled the area from yellowstone to the red deer river in Alberta, from the east face of the Rockies to the cypress hills. We only acted with no humanity and brutality to protect our families and children in the inner lands. We would never treat each other like this although mutual hand to hand duals happened.
These are very interesting stories and so well told too. I have to wonder just how many close shaves Colter needed before the penny finally dropped that maybe he was in the wrong business.
This has nothing to do with this, but I lived just outside williams, arizona for a good while and my family still does, founded by mountain man Bill Williams. Both my friend and I, on seperate occasions were walking through the woods between williams and the red lake area where we lived as teenagers, when something started throwing rocks at us, and heavy footsteps started chasing us through the woods. We both are quite sure there was no one there and it was some kind of angry spirit, perhaps from back in these days chasing us. I ran non stop for longer than I ever thought I could with the sound of the footsteps behind me, and rocks flying by me the whole time. I was standing still taking a break when the rocks started coming at me, I was sure someone must be nearby but could see absolutely no one. Then the footsteps came at me, I was looking right at where they were coming from and no one was there. I ran all the way to my house and collapsed. My friend had the same encounter around the same area. We both used to walk to and from town to the subdivision we lived in 12 miles away. Cutting through the woods as a shortcut.
What the hell were they thinking? 17 people killed by the blackfeet Indians . Can't believe they went into that area . What a bad decision. A decision that cost them .
Coulter and Jim Bridger - two great "run" stories. The beastiality of the Indians had no limit yet the mountain men just kept coming. Little did the savages know what ultimately would be their fate.
You should consider that the Spanish have started savagery against the native tribes right after moving into the new world. Decimised the Inkas and many other Tribes all over central America and the southern States of today USA. Many Tribes disappeared for ever due to Small pox n other diseases the Europeans brought in to the new world.
@@fritzruttimann1517 What you say is true, but the Blackfoot had no contact whatsoever with the Incas and Aztecs or even the Eastern Woodlands Indians, so their bestial actions were of their culture, not the Spanish.
You are very offensive writing this historical slander made up by colonizers like YOU! Indigenous people of North America had beautiful and peaceful cultures before YOU invaded!☝️ Nowadays we indigenous struggle with living life the correct way as we have many problems, mostly due to colonizers like YOU!... Instead posting your righteous narratives about indigenous, you should be honest about your own colonizer-forefathers first..Cause as you hide your truth your narrative is nothing but B-S. 🤨👎
@@angelvega7582 Peoples born on the North American Continent are NOT native to Europe, but to North America. or any other continent for that matter. Mexicans born in Mexico are NOT native to Spain, but Mexico.
If he was born on the continent he would be a native American as a citizen of the United States which was in existence at the time as to be distinguished from a non-native American indigenous person of some tribe. He was a true native American.
@@therealsecrettoweightloss Nice point. The English language has its limitations. I recall an effort to coin Amerindian as a word to describe the aborigines of the New World. A sort of a blanket term I suppose.
Of course you would 😂....and how do expect that proof to emerge from the wilderness 200 years. You suspect he made it all up? What happened you think? The Indians were brave and noble , they had a nice pow pow then his mate ate some dodgy beans and dropped dead? They were evil sadistic bastards without a single taboo that bothered them. They weren't savages, they were calculating humans.
2 full minutes of nothing at the end of video, why? do you just want us to think the video is longer than it really is? also your story was a bit to fast paced, to the point that i couldnt connect with the main person of the story at all. the story you tall in under 4 minutes, took weeks to happen. you did not do this story justice in the end. feels like a lot was omitted or not researched
Whoever posted this needs to work on their editing skills the video stops at about 6 minutes and 40 seconds and yet the whole thing is nearly 8 minutes long what going on with you guys?
@@marchellochiovelli7259 The beauty of RU-vid is that you do not have to be Warner Brothers or Marvel to tell a good story. I think HOKC tries pretty hard to tell a good story.
