We talk with Coralie Hughes, the granddaughter of poet John G. Neihardt. In 1923, Neihardt and some of his students traveled to near Lemmon, SD to find the spot where Hugh Glass was famously mauled by a grizzly bear. They got some local help to make an "Altar to Courage" and the students decided to turn it into a time capsule. A century later, students from the same college and their History professor Joseph Weixelman recreated the event. Granddaughter Coralie heard about it and decided to retrieve the monument & time capsule, open it, and see what was inside. But during the intervening century, the altar had been submerged in water, moved, stored for about a decade, and then placed at Shade Hill Reservoir, not far from the original location. With a lot of complicated options, her determination in this 21st-century epic is quite a story. Hat tip to Paul Hammel's reporting. Paul Hammel (nebraskaexaminer.com)
History 605: S4, Ep 5: The Song of the Hugh Glass Time Capsule
