hivernan

Updated: May 20, 2025

So "old" Hugh Glass was a leather-faced, leather-clad, whiskered veteran of probably not over forty years but of the right experience as a "hivernan" or "winterer." The route taken left the Missouri River, to cut across country more to the westward, for the Yellowstone direct.

Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin - Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters