book company later bought the rights for the novel to be republished in 1956. The novel is part of Manfred's Buckskin Man Tales. Film 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. When the film The Revenant, based on the 2002 novel about Hugh Glass, was released, Manfred's daughter and her husband were sad that it was not based on Lord Grizzly. Reception Madison Jones of The New York Times wrote in reference to the five Buckskin Man Tales novels, "But the very best of these novels, and surely a Western classic, is Lord Grizzly." William Carlos Williams said, "I have never in my lifetime of reading about our West met with anything like it." Lord Grizzly was a bestseller, and a finalist for the National Book Award in 1955. References Further reading Hugh Glass, Bruce Bradley (1999) Lord Grizzly, Frederick Manfred. (1954) Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee and Mountain Man, John Myers Myers (1976) Novels set in South Dakota Biographical novels 1954 American novels McGraw-Hill books Hugh Glass Works about mountain men