#2324060 - 07/21/08 03:15 PM
Crow Killer - The saga of liver eating Johnson
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Wow, just finished this up. Found it at the Public Library after I read about it on here. Very interesting look into the mountain men and just how tough they were. Well worth the time if you can find the book.
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#2329493 - 07/24/08 09:38 AM
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I'll look for this...
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#2369698 - 08/14/08 07:24 AM
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I know about this guy. The character 'Jeremiah Johnson' was loosely based on him. He was a badass.
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#2374352 - 08/16/08 03:44 PM
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Isn't a large portion of the book basically fiction loosely based on the life Johnson, but was never backed up with fact? Agreed, a fun read but is it real?
Have you ever read the tale of "The Medicine Calf" Jim Beckwourth? If you believe his account in the book he was the baddest, killingest, trappingest, smartest, womanizer to ever walk the earth.
Sometimes the tale is better than the truth.
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#2375336 - 08/17/08 09:16 AM
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I read the book"Jeriamiah Johnson" probably 20 years ago.IIt was in the Public Library,here in Newburgh.
It is one of the best books that I've ever read.The movie,with Robert Redford,also one of my favorite movies,followed the book pretty well.
Much of his early life is not documented,at all.
He was probably a German Immigrant,who joined the Army.Johnson was his aquired Army name.He was not a happy soldier.He either got a bad discharge,or just ran off.
He was a "Loner",and tought himself the ways of the "Wild".
The book makes the point that The Crows were proud Warriors.If Johnson had enraged the Sioux,they would have sent 30 braves after him.
Frank
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#2379536 - 08/19/08 04:41 PM
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You can get it at Amazon or from Dixie Gun Works. Dixie has a pretty good selection of books on all sorts of subject's related to hunting, shooting, history & so on.
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#2412378 - 09/04/08 07:12 AM
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I don't know how much of it is true, pretty tough to get true and accurate accounts from mostly illiterate story tellers. I'm sure some of the stories are embellished, but it had to be a very tough life. FWIW there are footnotes telling of the accounts and where they originated - I personally believe the book is probably quite accurate. Worth a read anyway.
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#2532551 - 10/28/08 01:12 PM
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Isn't a large portion of the book basically fiction loosely based on the life Johnson, but was never backed up with fact? Agreed, a fun read but is it real?
I agree. Here's a review I recently posted on Amazon.com:
This is an interesting book, no doubt about it. I am, however, a firm believer in the maxim "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." Many of the tales in this book are clearly untrue. Take, for example, when Johnson was captured by the Blackfeet. Johnson disables his guard, cuts off the living guard's leg for a food supply, then sneaks off into the wilderness. It turns bitter cold, the leg freezes solid and a naked-from-the-waist up Johnson supposedly travels 200 miles through snow and blizzards. One night, sleeping in a cave, he is awakened by a mountain lion trying to drag the leg away. Soon after the cat is driven away he sees a grizzly coming towards him from deep in the cave. He beats the bear with the frozen leg, and the grizzly retreats. Obviously this is a story that was fabricated for laughs but it is presented as fact in this book.
I believe there was a Mountain Man named Johnson, but not all the many tall tales told in this book. If this were a book of fiction, I'd give it 4 stars, but as a biography it only deserves 1 star due to its fictional nature.
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