Crow Killer

By Raymond W. Thorp, Robert Bunker

Subjects: Biography, Cannibalism, Johnston, john, 1822-1900, Crimes against, Trappers, Indians of North America

Description: 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 in American history. Johnson vowed vengeance on the entire Crow nation, and tracking its warriors singly and in groups, he killed 300 of them, scalped them, and ate their livers.