Jim Bridger

Jim Bridger is represented in the linked historical fiction through exploration, travel and cultural encounter, military command and battlefield decision-making, and empire, conquest and resistance. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

Michael Punke’s The Revenant is set in 1823. Fur trapper Hugh Glass is travelling with an expedition through the upper Missouri and Rocky Mountain borderlands when a grizzly bear mauls him. Michael Punke’s Ridgeline places Jim Bridger within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, empire, conquest and resistance, and exploration, travel and cultural encounter.