Crow killer : the saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
Thorp, Raymond W., 1896-19662016
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The movie 'Jeremiah Johnson' introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real Johnson was a far cry from the Redford version. Standing 6'2' in his stocking feet and weighing nearly 250 pounds, he was a mountain man among mountain men, one of the toughest customers on the western frontier. As the story goes, one morning in 1847 Johnson returned to his Rocky Mountain trapper's cabin to find the remains of his murdered Indian wife and her unborn child. He vowed vengeance against an entire Indian tribe. This book tells of that one-man, decades-long war to avenge his beloved. Whether seen as a realistic glimpse of a long ago, fierce frontier world, or as a mythic retelling of the many tales spun around and by Johnson, 'Crow Killer' is unforgettable.
Main title:
Crow killer : the saga of Liver-Eating Johnson / Raymond W. Thorp, Robert Bunker.
Author:
Thorp, Raymond W., 1896-1966, authorBunker, Robert, 1918-, author
Edition:
New edition / new introduction by Nathan E. Bender ; foreword by Richard M. Dorson.
Imprint:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.
Collation:
208 pages : map
Notes:
Previous edition: 1958.
ISBN:
9780253020833 (pbk)
Dewey class:
978.601092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2297040