Full name: Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson

Author: Raymond W. Thorp Year: 1959 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction, Western Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780253203120 9780253020833 0253203120 0253020832

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. Crow Killer 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. Similar books: Doc Holliday by John Myers Myers Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides A Terrible Glory by James Donovan Pioneer Women by Linda Peavy No Life for a Lady by Agnes Morley Cleaveland Custer by Larry McMurtry Beyond the Hundredth Meridian by Wallace Stegner The Richest Woman in America by Janet Wallach Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley Nelson and Emma by Roger Hudson Bess of Hardwick by Mary S. Lovell Queen Anne by Anne Somerset Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins A Pirate of Exquisite Mind by Diana Preston Wedlock by Wendy Moore The Heart of Everything That Is by Bob Drury Pioneer Doctor by Mari Grana The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne