Jeremiah Johnson, the movie, with Robert Redford, is based on Johnson’s life. Much of the film was on/ near Redfords property in Utah. Redford also took part in the reburial of Johnson...The movie, made in ‘72 is still a good watch...
I dated a crow Indian girl some yrs back .. we had a conversation one day about Johnson.. and she informed me that the tribe still remembers him to this day , she learned of him through the stories handed down through her family..
@@randymillhouse791 oh. I suppose you want to know if they hate him still or think he's a God or what ever.. didn't want to go there I'll let you figure it out .
Childhood abuse is a terrible thing, and if not treated causes problems in later life. He had problems with authority, which made it difficult with some jobs, but he tried to do the right thing and at the end this was recognized.
I have just found this history of Johnston. Thanks for posting. I wrote this poem about him in the 1980's. Jeremiah Johnston, Was Montana born and bred, In the backwoods by the mountains Where the townsfolk feared to tread, It was there amongst the towering pines He would set his traps and snare's A- hunting for a living After beaver, deer or bears. He was wedded to a flathead squaw Swan- Women was her name But one night when he was hunting A band of Crow, they came, Like shadows in the moonlight, Like serpents on the crawl, They found Swan- woman all alone And took her one and all. Jeremiah returned in the morning, And found her lying there Bloody and naked and dead on the ground, His soul filled with despair. He howled at the sky in anguish Like a wolf who has lost its mate And he swore to avenge his beloved No matter how long it may take. He buried Swan Women By the mountain, That will stand for evermore And as he wept there alone he etched on a stone SWAN WOMEN MY WIFE MY SQUAW.
Jeremiah set off in the morning To track down the party of Crow, And he found them in the evening Sitting hard by the campfires glow The sound of laughter filled the air They thought they were quite safe Then he burst forth into their lair Like a mad avenging wraith. They beheld the bloodlust in his eyes And they arose and tried to flee Seven made it to the woods, But Jeremiah slew him three, And as those that had escaped Peeped through the trees in fear They saw their comrade's bloody end, And a howling they did hear. And right there beside the campfire They beheld a dreadful sight, A demon drenched in Indian blood, Silhouetted by the light, A scene of horror greeted them Each one did quake and shiver For Jeremiah Johnston laughed As he ate each victim's liver.
Now for many years he hunted Those Indians that had fled, And one by one he tracked them down 'till everyone was dead, And always he would leave a sign As to how they met their end, For none were found with a liver, 'till Swan Woman was avenged. Now I'm not sure if this is true But often it is said That naughty children of the Crow Before they go to bed Are told that they must mend their ways And promise to be good 'Else Liver Eating Johnston Will be waiting in the woods.
Jude Lewis when it comes to nonces and rapists absofukinglutely !!!! It’s a vile sess pit of peadaphiles and enablers.Bad people bring out the bad in me... don’t blame the messenger flower.
Thank you for sharing this amazing story of this Man's life 💙 Can't wait to watch the film that everyone has stated too.. Many thanks Forgotten Lives 👌💯
Some men back in those days seemed to have lived several peoples lives worth of experiences in just one life. When I think of the term "liver eating" I think of someone who is a ruthless killer and fighter. So even though some stories maybe embellished it is easy to believe he would have killed many of the Crow people. I really enjoyed this video thank you 💕
@@Soothsayer-rs5nb No it was Crow. In fact that's the name of the referenced book: "Crow Killer" The Saga of Liver Eatin' Johnston. The book has a somewhat different take on his adventures than this video. It's worth a read as it is short and easily obtainable. It's hard to know the truth as most of these mountain men had the gift of embellishment. Most of the stories are from cross referenced diaries from various mountain men who knew him. I'd like to see a modern movie version of his life, one without Hollywood's need to change the story, one that more closely models what we know of him.
From what I’ve learned (that wasn’t mentioned here), most of the men that knew Johnson were very much afraid of him. And if they said something about him that wasn’t true, he would find them and beat the crap out of them. He would be considered a ruthless killer by today’s standards.
@@arctodussimus6198 He later fought in the Indian wars quite successfully and it appears often on his own. With his temperament he didn't take much guff from others and was held in esteem, although he did not kill indiscriminately so he was hardly a ruthless killer, but very tough, smart and dangerous.
@@truthbydesign5146 That's right. I live in the land of the Flathead, Crow, and Blackfeet (not "Blackfoot" like he kept saying in this video). I know of no oral traditions from any of these three tribes that support any of this tale. I have heard no oral traditions about a Jeremiah Johnson, period.
@@rongarritson7627 Not only that, his legendary vendetta against the Crow is fiction, too, like they mentioned in this video. I live in the land of the Flathead, Crow, and Blackfeet (not "Blackfoot" like he says in the video). There are no oral traditions among the three tribes about this alleged killer mountain man that I know of, and believe me there would be if there was any truth to it at all.
@@BigBri550 that right there sounds like some new age woke bs. You know some Indians and they don't have stories about it, that's your case? How about one of you show some actual evidence for what you're claiming? Instead of speaking like you're some kind of accredited researcher we're supposed to just take your word.
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman I'm not asking anyone to take my word for anything. What I am saying is that our local tribes are excellent historians, and Johnston/Johnson is conspicuously absent from their collective histories. That is why I doubt the veracity of the "Liver Eatin' Johnson" narrative the film promulgated.
I am surprised to hear this narration. I know American stories are shared the world over, but hearing English narrators is still a novelty for me. Thanks for the information.
It's why I watch Docs. You learn something new. Didn't know his wife's death and personal Crow war was a myth. I immediately knew this was what the movie was based on.
Jeremiah Jonson is one of best films out there! It was made just before the era of Idiocracy set in. Today it would be almost impossible to make such a movie. I hope we'll return to some kind of normality one day.
He was ambushed by natives and out of respect they let him go, it was winter, he was stripped naked and allowed to keep his knife. At the point of near death through hyperthermia he came across a pack of wolves who had just killed a moose. He fought the wolves off, crawled inside the moose to warm up and then skinned it. Then he walked 200 miles along the snow river to the nearest civilization. I read his life story 60 years ago and was totally in awe of this man, I still am ! Not mentioned elsewhere but he was a good cook and his biscuits were famous locally.
I live by red lodge MT where his old cabin is and his Hawkins rifle and knife is in the Cody museum an hour away. His grave is also there. Gives me chills every time I go there.
I personally had never heard of John Johnson before, what a interesting life he had. I love stories about the Old West, so that alone peaked my interest. He endured a life of "horrific" tragedies, his abusive father and the murder of his pregnant wife. In spite of this he went on to accomplish a lot in his lifetime. Great investigation work.
Perhaps I'm too picky but the British narrator was starting to get redundant with the "Native American" stuff he could have just said "Native" or "Indian" or "Tribal". But I do get it, If you are a "Native British person" Other wise a good and informative presentation.
He didn't actually eat the liver, he did cut it out. Only to take a bite, spit it out, and throw it all in the dirt. Showing his contempt for those victims.
Movie was on tv yesterday must have seen it 50 + times! know the script by off by heart. The characters in movie brilliant, bought the book, as well. Thought the movie better than book even though book was true to his life. Can't imagine living like he did we all have grown soft!
Depended on the tribe... Some of the dozens of tribes were peaceful, while others were warring tribes... Keep in mind, many western tribes had fought the brutal Spanish conquistadors hundreds of years before........
When I hear people say Irish or Scottish there obviously Scots Irish the people of then six ulster counties who were the first non English group to settle America. Most of the first pioneers and mountain men were these people like Davy Crockett Sam Houston and Jim Bowie
@Jo Sm I am saying most historians talk about the pre Irish catholic migration to America as a native Irish migration they don’t mention they are not native Irish and are dissenting
Great movie and a bushcraft old ways cult classic.I've seen it a number of times.I don't like all the killing but the survival aspect of the movie is great.You really put in the time on the research.A+ Sir👍👍
My last name is Johnson and my father always insisted that we were direct descendants of liver-eating Johnson used to love talking about that in the bar when we stopped after duck hunting
Ah, those family tales. I have a few too lol. I think that they honestly believe them🤷♀️. Not to say that some of them aren’t true, but I take them with a grain of salt😉. Doesn’t stop me from repeating them, though lol.
always amazes me to hear these stories and find out these wild West frontier guys ended up dying in some nursing home in some big city someplace it's kind of sad I always thought they died doing what they loved
He said young teenager some people consider once you hit double digits with age to be a teenager. A 10 year old doing tough work in that time was very common.
This is a great example of how history gets convoluted. The narrator goes back and forth from calling him Johnson and sometimes Johnston. If you listen you can hear it. In the beginning he even calls him John Garrison Johnson putting his last name as his middle.
Vardis Fisher wrote the book. It's a historical novel and therefore reflects the ideology of the time. The Indigenous peoples were not at all neighbourly at most times to interlopers. It's a good book and has that feel of Huckleberry Finn.
Andrew Garcia wrote a very good book about his life in Montana, 1877, "A tough Trip Through Paradise" some of his things are in the National archives, that would be some interesting research!
He never even took a bite out of the liver and never had a vendetta against the Crow. Never married and the never was a Bear Claw Chris Lapp, Del Gue or a Crazy Woman. Johnston didn't come to Montana until 1862.
He spent 12 years on whale boats. They don't have a reputation for feeding the crew very well plus extremely hard work while young would tend to build a man up.
The teenage son of a friend of mine was so inspired by the film "Jeremiah Johnson" that he stole a firearm and some camping equipment and made plans to run away from home and become a mountain man.
@I'm Back His dad found his stash of equipment in the cellar and that was the end of it. He told me about it at work a few days later. We had a good laugh.
We had a kid actually take off for a full week, when I was in school (would have been early 70's, high school). Nobody knew where he was, not his parents, not the school, not the police) it turned out he was very interested in 'leatherstocking tales', which was Eastern mountainmen, and constantly read books related to that topic. Sure enough, it turned out he took to the woods to see if he could survive, which he did. As a parent, I can't imagine the worry.
Ditto The part with the enemy Indian left dangling from a tree unable to escape is just ridiculous. I likened it to a bloody version of a "Pecos Bill" story.
Hello, I really do love this channel, the story's will take you back to the time it all did happened. But there is only one thing that is a little bothering, and that is the hum sound to be heard when you are narrating is there a possibility that you get rid of the humming sound? Please keep up going to tell the beauty full stories. Thank you
@Fred Teall Maybe the internet, and commenting on stuff, isn't for you, Fred. You'll find a lot of people don't live up to Fred Teall's exacting standards.
Thank you for this very informative video! I enjoyed the Redford film but thought it was at best semi-fictional and there wasn’t any Internet to research much farther. Now we know!
It's sad but most people have never bothered to read the letters that JJ wrote in his day living down by Billings. He told everyone over and over, that he never married, had no death hunt on the Crows, or actually ate an Indian's liver. He actually showed one reporter how the story came to be.
I have personally stood at the gravesite of John Johnston. I even have a bit of home movie footage from when I was their in the 1970s. I have read "Crow Killer," and it's so wildly exaggerated that it's impossible to take most of it seriously at all. Thanks for all this other information that I hadn't heard before.
Thank you for this story! What a tale! I’ve always been interested in this story, after finding out the movie was a (kindof) true story. You’ve added a LOT of information that I didn’t know from my casual perusing. 👍. And what mythology. Like he’s going to spend time hacking off some guys leg while he’s trying to escape😂
Jeremiah Johnson, the movie, with Robert Redford, is based on Johnson’s life. Much of the film was on/ near Redfords property in Utah. Redford also took part in the reburial of Johnson...The movie, made in ‘72 is still a good watch...
Great movie. A favorite of my hubby. We call our son Jeremiah Joey sometimes because he is such an outdoor kid
Awesome!
Amen and watched the movie on the Big Screen with my father and brother @ age 7. Thanks for Posting.
Yes! One of my favorite movies, I watch it every few years.
IL need to watch that movie xxx
I dated a crow Indian girl some yrs back .. we had a conversation one day about Johnson.. and she informed me that the tribe still remembers him to this day , she learned of him through the stories handed down through her family..
AND?
@@randymillhouse791 oh. I suppose you want to know if they hate him still or think he's a God or what ever.. didn't want to go there I'll let you figure it out .
Can that be more interesting? Thanks!
@@jojobaker1764 Ok, I'll speculate since you asked. Her tribe subsists solely on liver.
@@randymillhouse791 there's always one in the crowd . The idiot..
Buried in LA oh god...
He's rolling in his grave..
Somebody move that poor man
He is in cody WY now they moved him in the 70s
He is buried in cody wyoming, at the the old trail town.
@@fognnorway6471 I went there this summer one of the coolest places I've ever ben. The old taxidermy mounts and old guns and cabins.
Cascadia would of had him covered, he'd be proud to ride that ship to the bottom.
Buried with Jimmy Hoffa Under Highway 1 north of Santa Barbara. Alan Dorfman told me this just before he was shot to death.
Childhood abuse is a terrible thing, and if not treated causes problems in later life. He had problems with authority, which made it difficult with some jobs, but he tried to do the right thing and at the end this was recognized.
My lord sister Elizabeth that was the first thought I had as well. Strength and peace to you and yours in these perilous days we are in. Titus 2:13.
All the buzzwords and rhetoric. So negative and divisive.
I have just found this history of Johnston. Thanks for posting.
I wrote this poem about him in the 1980's.
Jeremiah Johnston,
Was Montana born and bred,
In the backwoods by the mountains
Where the townsfolk feared to tread,
It was there amongst the towering pines
He would set his traps and snare's
A- hunting for a living
After beaver, deer or bears.
He was wedded to a flathead squaw
Swan- Women was her name
But one night when he was hunting
A band of Crow, they came,
Like shadows in the moonlight,
Like serpents on the crawl,
They found Swan- woman all alone
And took her one and all.
Jeremiah returned in the morning,
And found her lying there
Bloody and naked and dead on the ground,
His soul filled with despair.
He howled at the sky in anguish
Like a wolf who has lost its mate
And he swore to avenge his beloved
No matter how long it may take.
He buried Swan Women
By the mountain,
That will stand for evermore
And as he wept there alone
he etched on a stone
SWAN WOMEN
MY WIFE
MY SQUAW.
Jeremiah set off in the morning
To track down the party of Crow,
And he found them in the evening
Sitting hard by the campfires glow
The sound of laughter filled the air
They thought they were quite safe
Then he burst forth into their lair
Like a mad avenging wraith.
They beheld the bloodlust in his eyes
And they arose and tried to flee
Seven made it to the woods,
But Jeremiah slew him three,
And as those that had escaped
Peeped through the trees in fear
They saw their comrade's bloody end,
And a howling they did hear.
And right there beside the campfire
They beheld a dreadful sight,
A demon drenched in Indian blood,
Silhouetted by the light,
A scene of horror greeted them
Each one did quake and shiver
For Jeremiah Johnston laughed
As he ate each victim's liver.
Now for many years he hunted
Those Indians that had fled,
And one by one he tracked them down
'till everyone was dead,
And always he would leave a sign
As to how they met their end,
For none were found with a liver,
'till Swan Woman was avenged.
Now I'm not sure if this is true
But often it is said
That naughty children of the Crow
Before they go to bed
Are told that they must mend their ways
And promise to be good
'Else Liver Eating Johnston
Will be waiting in the woods.
Great poem, I highly enjoyed it!
Awesome poem
Thank you Martin.
Wow--- Great poem!!!!!
Amazing job, very flowy
"If I could be a character in Red Dead Redemption, I'd be this guy!!!"
Yep
You can make a mountain man character online
You would like to be a cannibal??
You’ve come far pilgrim.
...Feels like far...
Didn't put enough dirt down. Saw it right off...
“Killed over 300 people to avenge his late wife’s death”
Me: “Oh so sweet! He must have really loved her!”
That's aright I guess ... I plan on murdering the entire planet.
True shit
*John Wick would like to meet you*
@@westyavro after you leave your moms basement?
Born July 1 a Cancer-not only do they have next level energies-see Elon Musk,but if you ever cross them they never let go of that disrespect.
Too bad Hollywood and other writers had to embellish...this man's life was fascinating enough.
real life is more interesting than a Hollywood version of the story.
Little Green Thumb aw f¥€k yes that’s an amazing idea if you need an extra ‘backpacker’ I’m in.Get rid of the sycophant noncies all at once 💥 👍🏼
@Little Green Thumb
What's wrong with you?!?
@@pickettywitchoriginal
You're obviously a bad witch.
Jude Lewis when it comes to nonces and rapists absofukinglutely !!!! It’s a vile sess pit of peadaphiles and enablers.Bad people bring out the bad in me... don’t blame the messenger flower.
Thank you for sharing this amazing story of this Man's life 💙 Can't wait to watch the film that everyone has stated too.. Many thanks Forgotten Lives 👌💯
This is a most interesting story NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE THANKS. There are many of this type of stories of the Mountain Men if the Wild West.
Some men back in those days seemed to have lived several peoples lives worth of experiences in just one life. When I think of the term "liver eating" I think of someone who is a ruthless killer and fighter. So even though some stories maybe embellished it is easy to believe he would have killed many of the Crow people. I really enjoyed this video thank you 💕
Thanks for watching!
I thought it was Blackfeet that killed his pregnant wife?
@@Soothsayer-rs5nb No it was Crow. In fact that's the name of the referenced book: "Crow Killer" The Saga of Liver Eatin' Johnston. The book has a somewhat different take on his adventures than this video. It's worth a read as it is short and easily obtainable. It's hard to know the truth as most of these mountain men had the gift of embellishment. Most of the stories are from cross referenced diaries from various mountain men who knew him. I'd like to see a modern movie version of his life, one without Hollywood's need to change the story, one that more closely models what we know of him.
From what I’ve learned (that wasn’t mentioned here), most of the men that knew Johnson were very much afraid of him. And if they said something about him that wasn’t true, he would find them and beat the crap out of them.
He would be considered a ruthless killer by today’s standards.
@@arctodussimus6198 He later fought in the Indian wars quite successfully and it appears often on his own. With his temperament he didn't take much guff from others and was held in esteem, although he did not kill indiscriminately so he was hardly a ruthless killer, but very tough, smart and dangerous.
So basically Johnson was a badass in every sense of the word.
He killed 300 people, most of which had little or nothing to do with his wife's killing.
@@NihilisticBallman I guess you didn't get to the part where all those murders were a fictional, made up story.
@@truthbydesign5146 That's right. I live in the land of the Flathead, Crow, and Blackfeet (not "Blackfoot" like he kept saying in this video). I know of no oral traditions from any of these three tribes that support any of this tale. I have heard no oral traditions about a Jeremiah Johnson, period.
I first read the true story of him in 1998 while living in Montana. I’ve been fascinated by his life ever since.He really loved his wife!
The book Crow Killer is all fiction. He never had a wife.
@@rongarritson7627 Not only that, his legendary vendetta against the Crow is fiction, too, like they mentioned in this video. I live in the land of the Flathead, Crow, and Blackfeet (not "Blackfoot" like he says in the video). There are no oral traditions among the three tribes about this alleged killer mountain man that I know of, and believe me there would be if there was any truth to it at all.
@@BigBri550 that right there sounds like some new age woke bs. You know some Indians and they don't have stories about it, that's your case? How about one of you show some actual evidence for what you're claiming? Instead of speaking like you're some kind of accredited researcher we're supposed to just take your word.
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman I'm not asking anyone to take my word for anything. What I am saying is that our local tribes are excellent historians, and Johnston/Johnson is conspicuously absent from their collective histories. That is why I doubt the veracity of the "Liver Eatin' Johnson" narrative the film promulgated.
@@BigBri550or maybe they are just ashamed to admit it!
Always love listening to these stories, so interesting. The movie Jeremiah Johnson with Robert Redford was most enjoyable. Thanks F L.
Thank you!!
Did anyone else get an add about the importance of an healthy liver!
Yes!
@I'm Back Will do tnx..
@I'm Back Cool..Ill have to check out other browsers..search eng. Etc. Duck " Go
They're trying to fatten you up.
Yeah. Lol
Wow wow wow, I always liked that movie, now I know the back story. He was an amazing man and tough as they come. Thanks for a great story.
Which movie? Or did he say? And I have not heard yet. TY 😊
Ohhh, must be Jeremiah Johnson with Robert Redford ! I love that one too!
I had never even heard of that movie. Thnx! (U'll watch if I can find it online) 👍
Is the book crowkiller embellished or true
I am surprised to hear this narration. I know American stories are shared the world over, but hearing English narrators is still a novelty for me. Thanks for the information.
It's why I watch Docs. You learn something new. Didn't know his wife's death and personal Crow war was a myth. I immediately knew this was what the movie was based on.
Jeremiah Jonson is one of best films out there! It was made just before the era of Idiocracy set in. Today it would be almost impossible to make such a movie. I hope we'll return to some kind of normality one day.
We won't. Computer generated mountains are "BETTER" than real mountains.
He was ambushed by natives and out of respect they let him go, it was winter, he was stripped naked and allowed to keep his knife. At the point of near death through hyperthermia he came across a pack of wolves who had just killed a moose. He fought the wolves off, crawled inside the moose to warm up and then skinned it. Then he walked 200 miles along the snow river to the nearest civilization. I read his life story 60 years ago and was totally in awe of this man, I still am !
Not mentioned elsewhere but he was a good cook and his biscuits were famous locally.
Love all your interesting forgotten history videos! Thanks!
Thanks veru much!
Jeremiah Johnson was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid
The music score for "Jeremiah Johnson" is , in my opinion, the greatest Early American West genre ever composed.
One of the best story's I've heard in a Long time and well read too
Thanks :)
I agree. great job with the story
Great job again FL, thanks
Cheers CR!
Heyyyyy crime reel 👋🏿
Great video! One of my favorite movies, nice to hear the actual history behind it.
Loved this one. Sharing history is a passion of ours too!
The clean shaven guy in the video with the white hat was Jim Bridger, not Johnson.
Thank you 😊
Please keep sharing your knowledge
I live by red lodge MT where his old cabin is and his Hawkins rifle and knife is in the Cody museum an hour away. His grave is also there. Gives me chills every time I go there.
In the book:"Liver eating Johson," It say's he was 6'7" , a giant in those days.
That would make him even a giant by modern day standards
A true American Legend ! Bigger than Life ! One of my Mountain man Heros that i aspire to equal !
The movie was based very, very, VERY loosely on his life!
Compared to the book, the movie was mild.
Another interesting Story of some amazing character. I can just imagine living in tgevrogh wild west. Thanks b. C
Thank you Berenice!
In my jr year in high school my history teacher taught us about Liver eating Johnson, I found this to be very interesting.
I personally had never heard of John Johnson before, what a interesting life he had. I love stories about the Old West, so that alone peaked my interest. He endured a life of "horrific" tragedies, his abusive father and the murder of his pregnant wife. In spite of this he went on to accomplish a lot in his lifetime. Great investigation work.
Watch the video one more time. He never had a wife, it was a myth.
Thanks very much for the comment!
Excellent video, knew a little about the story and the movie. Enjoyed watching and I learned a lot. Thank you.
In the northeast we still say Indians. These are the oldest tribes in the entire US!
Perhaps I'm too picky but the British narrator was starting to get redundant with the "Native American" stuff he could have just said "Native" or "Indian" or "Tribal". But I do get it, If you are a "Native British person" Other wise a good and informative presentation.
He didn't actually eat the liver, he did cut it out. Only to take a bite, spit it out, and throw it all in the dirt. Showing his contempt for those victims.
Random dumb thing... Jeremiah Johnson is where the nodding man gif comes from. I only learned this the other day.😂😂
Movie was on tv yesterday must have seen it 50 + times! know the script by off by heart. The characters in movie brilliant, bought the book, as well. Thought the movie better than book even though book was true to his life. Can't imagine living like he did we all have grown soft!
Excellent story of the true events of a real man of the frontier. Thank you. ✌
He was right...
Wild Indiańs dont understood a language of mercy and forgiveness..
I don't understand the hatred for the American Indian. There alright.
Depended on the tribe... Some of the dozens of tribes were peaceful, while others were warring tribes... Keep in mind, many western tribes had fought the brutal Spanish conquistadors hundreds of years before........
When I hear people say Irish or Scottish there obviously Scots Irish the people of then six ulster counties who were the first non English group to settle America. Most of the first pioneers and mountain men were these people like Davy Crockett Sam Houston and Jim Bowie
@Jo Sm I am saying most historians talk about the pre Irish catholic migration to America as a native Irish migration they don’t mention they are not native Irish and are dissenting
Try reading a book or two about him.
Great movie and a bushcraft old ways cult classic.I've seen it a number of times.I don't like all the killing but the survival aspect of the movie is great.You really put in the time on the research.A+ Sir👍👍
Looks like a picture of Jim Bridger to me
His last name is Johnston, but most people thinks it is Johnson because of the movie.
His real last name was Garrison.
My last name is Johnson and my father always insisted that we were direct descendants of liver-eating Johnson used to love talking about that in the bar when we stopped after duck hunting
He never married, so basically you are his bastards.
@@BangFarang1 that would be Mr Bastard to you
@@Music-lx1tf I was kidding LoL
@@BangFarang1 and I took it as such
Ah, those family tales. I have a few too lol. I think that they honestly believe them🤷♀️. Not to say that some of them aren’t true, but I take them with a grain of salt😉. Doesn’t stop me from repeating them, though lol.
Did anybody catch the dates?...a young teen started whaling 13.. then says 12 years later quit that work,25. Then said at 22 started
Love the info in this video and the narration. Excellent job!
Thanks very much :)
always amazes me to hear these stories and find out these wild West frontier guys ended up dying in some nursing home in some big city someplace it's kind of sad I always thought they died doing what they loved
If he was a teenager when he left the farm, how then can he be 22 after doing 12 years on a whaler?...Lets just make this all up eh!
He said young teenager some people consider once you hit double digits with age to be a teenager. A 10 year old doing tough work in that time was very common.
Most of this is untrue!
Good call ,Sherlock
This is a great example of how history gets convoluted. The narrator goes back and forth from calling him Johnson and sometimes Johnston. If you listen you can hear it. In the beginning he even calls him John Garrison Johnson putting his last name as his middle.
Vardis Fisher wrote the book.
It's a historical novel and therefore reflects the ideology of the time.
The Indigenous peoples were not at all neighbourly at most times to interlopers.
It's a good book and has that feel of Huckleberry Finn.
Thank you for taking with us on this Story about Real Life 🙏
Andrew Garcia wrote a very good book about his life in Montana, 1877, "A tough Trip Through Paradise" some of his things are in the National archives, that would be some interesting research!
Ate the mans leg because he was hungry!! God damn savage ! Loved it!
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
My pleasure!
A month in a VA Hospital is guaranteed to kill the toughest man.
disgustedvet praying for you, thank you for your service, Titus 2:13
@@scottmorgan701 I'm good , thank you .
The VA is the last place any vet wants to die.
@@ungratefulpeasant8085 The South Bronx one had hookers and rats.
He did not "Eat the Liver"... he did take a Bite out of their livers accomplishing the goal of terrorizing the Crow....
He never even took a bite out of the liver and never had a vendetta against the Crow. Never married and the never was a Bear Claw Chris Lapp, Del Gue or a Crazy Woman. Johnston didn't come to Montana until 1862.
lol
That’s not how the Crow tell the story…
Automatic like. Love your content bud.
Now to lie down downunder for an afternoon nap to listen. Cheers and thank you.
Cheers, appreciate it!
I have a question how a man of his time could be 120 kg with almost no body fat?
@X400kool Z and of course the hard work of his time
He spent 12 years on whale boats. They don't have a reputation for feeding the crew very well plus extremely hard work while young would tend to build a man up.
Thanks for another interesting video 😌 wot a fascinating story stay safe ❤️ x see you next week
Wow what wonderfull pics!
Intresting story
Hugs from Sweden
Thanks as always!
The teenage son of a friend of mine was so inspired by the film "Jeremiah Johnson" that he stole a firearm and some camping equipment and made plans to run away from home and become a mountain man.
@I'm Back His dad found his stash of equipment in the cellar and that was the end of it. He told me about it at work a few days later. We had a good laugh.
We had a kid actually take off for a full week, when I was in school (would have been early 70's, high school). Nobody knew where he was, not his parents, not the school, not the police) it turned out he was very interested in 'leatherstocking tales', which was Eastern mountainmen, and constantly read books related to that topic. Sure enough, it turned out he took to the woods to see if he could survive, which he did. As a parent, I can't imagine the worry.
Saw the movie in the 1970's. Thank you for this mini documentary. Very interesting.
I was a mountain man in my previous life.
I have vivid flashbacks..
I live in a city..
I have woods skills with no training
It all seems so familiar.
What was his stance on fava beans I wonder ... ?
They go Great with Chianti. DANG, Kaaril...you stole my thunder.
I could be wrong
But wouldn’t the crow have to cross through either the nez pierce land or the Blackfoot to reach the flathead/ Salish tribes
I would like to be raised by tomatoes. They are peaceful and pretty, and live a healthy lifestyle..
Until you realize they're a member of the deadly nightshade family 🤣
I read the book “crow killer” last year and I really believe 80% of the tales about him are bullish!t.
Ditto
The part with the enemy Indian left dangling from a tree unable to escape is just ridiculous.
I likened it to a bloody version of a "Pecos Bill" story.
@El Nazgûl Agreed
It was insanely over the top.
Have you ever heard of the old saying, opinions are like assholes everyone has one!
This opening music makes me sad. It reminds me of N0ob3.
That whaling very tough work. I never whaled but fished in. The no boring sea
Thank you for all of this information!
The best account I have read of Johnson is "Crow Killer" by Raymond Thorp. There are plenty of details sourced from people who knew him.
Hello, I really do love this channel, the story's will take you back to the time it all did happened.
But there is only one thing that is a little bothering, and that is the hum sound to be heard when you are narrating is there a possibility that you get rid of the humming sound? Please keep up going to tell the beauty full stories.
Thank you
Thanks very much, i'll try to fix it, i think it was my computers fan :/
Thank You For Sharing 😊
So your saying he is a big Johnson, or a huge Johnson. The captain was hit by a big Johnson.
And he had a mushroom welt on his forehead when he woke up
A few pictures that were shown, were of Jim Bridger. Totally different person unfortunately.
@Fred Teall of course i am, i am a huge fan of the mountian man/free fur trapping era
@Fred Teall huh? Why ? It should be depicted accurately. No worries though im sure they will read these comments
@Fred Teall Maybe you should. Few would consider her initial response smug; your subsequent responses, however...
@Fred Teall mountains out of molehills
@Fred Teall Maybe the internet, and commenting on stuff, isn't for you, Fred. You'll find a lot of people don't live up to Fred Teall's exacting standards.
What a tough man!
Great vid, very informative
Thanks!
This made my night 😃
Glad yo hear it!
What an interesting man, whether all of its true or not!
The crow people were said to have called him Apeheik Absaroka (not sure of spelling) which translates to Crow killer
Dapiek Apsaalooke. He never killed any Crow Indians.
This must be wrong. He was a teen when he left home, spent twelve years on a ship, so how was he only 22 years old when he left the boat??! 😆😂
Perplexing
He was also capable of stopping time?
@@guambyguambelle1864 he invented time. Central/Pacific/⛰ also Paul Bunyan was his cousin. Babe the blue ox was their pet.
Yeah that's correct, he was 10 teen when he left home. LOL.
Thank you for this very informative video! I enjoyed the Redford film but thought it was at best semi-fictional and there wasn’t any Internet to research much farther. Now we know!
I'd Never heard of him! so interesting Great video!
It's sad but most people have never bothered to read the letters that JJ wrote in his day living down by Billings. He told everyone over and over, that he never married, had no death hunt on the Crows, or actually ate an Indian's liver. He actually showed one reporter how the story came to be.
I always wondered how much of these historic figures' stories were actually true or false. More entertaining to believe
Loved the video, as I always do. Subscribed, you do great work ,
Thank you!
Johnson moved to LA and died there in the early 1900s
He was nothing like the movie character
Thank you for telling his story.
My pleasure!
Awesome Video As Always, My Good Sir🌟💙🤘
Thanks!!
DID HE PAIR IT WITH A NICE CHIANTI AND SOME FARVA BEANS?
LOL, more likely moonshine whisky and pinto beans
Rainbow nations of peace had no qualms about murdering defenseless women and babies did they.
The photo at the beginning looks like Hatchet Jack from the movie.
Very much so.
I have to wonder if Sydney Pollack did that deliberately.
@@Gunners_Mate_Guns I'd lay money that he did.
@@MrCSRT8 Agreed
I wonder what happened with his sisters and brothers?
I just found your channel Im excited!! I love history and real life stories like this. Do you have a podcast?
I have personally stood at the gravesite of John Johnston.
I even have a bit of home movie footage from when I was their in the 1970s.
I have read "Crow Killer," and it's so wildly exaggerated that it's impossible to take most of it seriously at all.
Thanks for all this other information that I hadn't heard before.
Thank you for this story! What a tale! I’ve always been interested in this story, after finding out the movie was a (kindof) true story. You’ve added a LOT of information that I didn’t know from my casual perusing. 👍. And what mythology. Like he’s going to spend time hacking off some guys leg while he’s trying to escape😂
Yeah you could have told us how old he was when he died