Crow Killer
The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
Thorp, Raymond W.
Bunker, Robert
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BOOK SUMMARY
One of the most gripping feuds-- one man against a whole tribe-- in American history.
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The true story (on which the film Jeremiah Johnson was partially based) of John Johnson, who in 1847 found his wife and her unborn child had been killed by Crow braves. Out of this tragedy came one of the most gripping feuds—one man against a whole tribe—in American history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One The Young Trapper
1 The Making of a Legend
2 The Hair Merchants
3 An Apprenticeship
4 A Madness
5 Oath of Vengeance
Part Two Liver-Eating Johnson
6 A Man’s Reputation
7 Twined Scalps
8 Crow Against Flathead
9 Winter Holiday, Spring Council
10 ...A Missing Chapter
Part Three A Man Amoung Men
11 The Eighteenth Warrior
12 Captive of the Blackfeet
13 Mountain-Man Rendezvous
14 Boots and Biscuits
15 Portuguese Phillips
16 A Sioux Liver
17 Monument for a Foe’s Friend
18 Target for Gray Bear
Part Four Brother of the Crows
19 White Chief of the Shoshoni
20 Biscuits for Blackfeet
21 A Last Departure
22 Mariano and the Ute Chief
23 The Piegan Princess
24 Eight Scalps for the Crows
Part Five The Old Trapper
25 Burial for Bear Claw
26 Sheriff Johnson
27 Last Trail
28 Lodge by the Sea
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0253203120
ISBN(13-digit): 9780253203120
Copyright: 1983
Dewey Decimal: 978.02/0924
Library of Congress: oc2006030752
Book Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 0.55
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