For the record, Hugh Glass hunted down Fitzgerald, not Fitzpatrick. Ronald Reagan claims Glass forgave everyone which is incorrect. The only person he let live was Jim Bridger.
shareReagan was employing ... alternative facts .... what he said was true .... from a certain point of view
shareAccording to wiki, he may not have 'forgiven' Fitzgerald, but he didn't kill him:
Glass reportedly spared Fitzgerald's life because he would be killed by the army captain for killing a soldier of the United States Army. However the captain asked Fitzgerald to return the stolen Hawken rifle to Glass, and before departing Glass warned Fitzgerald never to leave the army, or he would still kill him.
Sure, they are "Hollywood accurate stories", not "accurate accurate stories". In that particular episode Hugh Glass was mauled by a grizzly bear. Do you think that his wounds were shown accurately, or even could have been shown accurately according to the then Hollywood production code?
As a kid I read an article about the "Red Ghost" that spooked Arizona in 1883-1893, and later saw the Death Valley Days episode "The Red Ghost of Eagle Creek", 29 December 1963, based on the true events, and noticed how much they compressed the time and the space of the events to make a story out of it. So ever since then I realized that most TV shows based on true stories are "Hollywood accurate stories" and not "accurate accurate stories" such as documentaries have.
And even documentaries and "educational" or "factual" shows often distort the truth too much. For example, I saw an episode of Bone Detectives "Warlord of Bamburgh Castle" 24 March 2008, about the reign of King Edwin of Northumbria in the 7th century AD, and with scenes filmed at - you guessed it - Bamburgh castle. And nobody mentioned that the stone castle seen in the episode, on the site of Edwin's stronghold at Bamburgh, was built centuries after Edwin's time in the high middle ages and in the Victorian era.
And it is specifically said that King Edwin converted to Christianity, which is true, and that Edwin's enemies were the pagans Penda and Cadwallon. Penda, the King of Mercia, was a pagan, but he let Christian missionaries work in his lands and let members of his family convert to Christianity, so he didn't fight Edwin out of anti-Christian bias, but more because "Britain wasn't big enough for the two of them", you might say. Cadwallon, King of Gwynedd and King of the Britons, was a Christian and didn't fight Edwin because Edwin was a Christian Anglo-Saxon king but because Edwin was an evil Christian Anglo-Saxon king who didn't let being Christian keep him invading Cadwallon's kingdom of Gwynedd just like evil pagan Anglo-Saxon kings did.
Apparently, even in this relatively secular age, producers believe that audiences expect that everyone who converted to Christianity was a good guy, and thus that their enemies were bad guys and thus pagans.