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I don’t know if this was a theatrical or made-for-tv film, but I watched it with my father when I was maybe 9 or 10. It’s probably the 70’s, a very manly survival film, and I remember my father saying that it was based on real events that took place around the Wyoming/Montana wilderness.

There is a group of men in the wilderness, probably in the 1800’s. They may have been an expeditionary team, or miners, or something of that nature. One of them gets brutally attacked by a bear (a grizzly, perhaps?), and is badly mutilated, but survives. The others either assume he is dead or just leave him for dead, but in any case he gets left in the middle of the wilderness. He regains consciousness, lost, badly injured, and somehow manages to survive and make it out. I’m not sure if he finds the main camp, or gets found by others, but I remember he overcomes devastating odds to make it out alive.

Anybody know this one?

Possibly "Man In The Wilderness" from the early Seventies.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067388/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067388/)

That looks like it. I thought I remembers something about a bible the man had with him and that there was a spiritual message to the film, but I couldn't be sure. The synopsis seems to fit it. It looks like a good film. Richard Harris and John Huston starring. I'll have to check it out.

You can consider this one solved.

No problem. It's actually a pretty good little film.