Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (Midland Book)
by Raymond W. Thorp Jr., Robert Bunker

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Book Review: Behind The Legend
Summary: 5 Stars

It depicts a coarse, violent life in terms uniquely appropriate to the stories it relates, and does a remarkable job at documenting what little can be documented of a life lived far beyond the bounds of places where such documentation even existed -- much less, mattered. The starkness with which the author relates his information does much more to convey what the real Johnson's life was like than a more esthetically-pleasing and smoothly literary version ever could.

Finishing the book leaves one wishing there was more -- wondering, for example, what could make a man such as Johnson seek out such a life, and wishing it were possible to read all of the actual research to which Thorp so frequently refers.

Summary of Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (Midland Book)

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.

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