In what war did the man who narrated The Great American West fight?
Jason Robards Jason Nelson Robards Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was a winner of the Tony Award, two Academy Awards and an Emmy Award. He was also a United States Navy combat veteran of World War II.
Andrew Henry (fur trader) Major Andrew Henry ( 1775 – 1832) was an American miner, army officer, frontiersman, trapper and entrepreneur. Alongside William H. Ashley, Henry was the co-owner of the highly successful Rocky Mountain Fur Company, otherwise known as "Ashley's Hundred", for the famous mountain men working for their firm from 1822-1832. Henry appears in the narrative poem, the "Song of Hugh Glass", which is part of the Neihardt's "Cycle of the West". He is portrayed by John Huston in the 1971 film "Man in the Wilderness" and by Domhnall Gleeson in the 2015 film "The Revenant", both of which depict Glass's bear attack and journey.