I have been to Cody, Wyoming, and I have personally stood right next to John Johnston's grave there. I even have the home movie footage of it, first transferred from the original 8mm film (taken in 1977), then to VHS tape, then finally digitized. Fun fact: Robert Redford, who portrayed Johnston (renamed as "Jeremiah Johnson," of course) actually served as one of the pallbearers for Johnston's body when it was relocated to Cody.
Tourists spend Millions of Dollars every year to visit sites throughout America while World Traveled Americans have Never been to Cody Wyoming or Newspaper Rock. Another Gravesite of Wild Bill Cody; Cody Wyoming and Lookout Mountain Golden Colorado.
One of Robert Redfords best movies....and an entertaining story...as most Dime novels and Tabloid "rag sheets" of the late 19th century and most "true" western tales came from.....like this one.
Quite a man, there are not a lot of men today who can say they have lived a more adventurous life, some of us just lived our lives and went where our loves took us. I was a soldier, then a law man for 8 and 24 years, I too loved adventure but in my day there were only foreign wars, and criminals to chase. I love the stories of the old mountain men, my wife an I used to talk of living the lone life on some mountain in the West but never took to the life. The last few years we had together before cancer took her from me, we traveled the South West in our Class A Motor home on mini adventures in the Mohave desert near the California Arizona border, staying in the free State of Arizona but taking day trips into the peoples republic of California to see the sights. I loved those days, and sure do miss my good lady, we had 51 years and 4 days of wedded bliss, she stood beside me during my Army days, waited at home when I went to war in Vietnam and lived through the next 8 years while I served in different Units across our great nation, she kissed me good bye when I went off to patrol the streets and hugged me when I got home alive the following morning. Now I sit here and enjoy the tales of the Old west and remember the wonderful days as my wife and I lived the good life.
Thank you for sharing your life story and for your service to the country. We send condolences your way. Your wife sounds like she was an incredible human to share this life with. May our old west videos continue to bring you joy, and may the memories of exploring the American West alongside your wife never fade.
Read the books and watched the movie. When the movie came out, HBO had just come on the scene. HBO Channel 100 they called and would play a movie for 24 hrs. over and over again. I watched that movie the whole day and still love it.
Red Lodge, MT still has his small cabin*(12X8 maybe) standing as part of a (very)small local museum. A broken metal bed frame and a few of his things are still inside. It looks like a very rough way to live. There are a few notches near one of the doors. Not sure if it has any meaning, but maybe. *not the one that burnt down obviously.
A lot of this isn’t true but he must definitely was quite a man. A little embellishment still makes for a good story, as long as you know, the truth, I don’t like being lied to.
I like how you read. Also the video is really good. I love to learn. I-remember the Redford movie but I never knew this dude was for real. That was why I appreciate you.
@@Chronicheaven he wasn’t liver eating Johnson was a real person but he never killed Crows that all came from a fictional book that was considered fact by historians until recently.
Johnson was born in 1824 & the Mexican-American war began in 1846. He wouldve been 22yo and not underage. Also, surprisingly, the average American in the 1850's was 5'10", not 5'6". It's now 5'9". (Us American's are shrinking) This research found these mistakes in less than 5 minutes, and the podcast was less than 3 minutes old. Call me old fashioned, but if I was going to do a podcast on history or a historical figure, i might want to do the bare minimum amount of research that a 3rd grade teacher would expect of her pupil before turning in his paper. All the best.
He was certainly an interesting character though I am sure his exploits were exaggerated..didn’t look Much like Robert Redford either 😃 The crow usually got along with the white…Custer was at the little big horn at the request of the crow to protect them from the Sioux that was on their land
From what I’ve heard the story about him killing 300 Crows is completely untrue, this was based off of the book lover eating Johnson or whatever it was called, and was considered accurate by historians up until pretty recently. The Crows were very friendly toward the US and served as scouts for the US army against the Lakota in the 1860s and 1870s. Even if he did actually fight the crows it’s highly unlikely he killed 300. To kill that many he would basically have to spend all his time finding Crows to kill and somehow gotten lucky enough to survive every encounter with them and not get killed himself. From what I’ve heard about the actually story of liver eating Johnson is he was a mountain man and fought in the campaigns against the Sioux and Cheyenne and was a great Indian fighter, the story of him liver eating allegedly came from when in battle he killed a Lakota warrior with a knife and when he pulled the knife out of his stomach a piece of the warriors liver was on the knife and Johnson licked the blood off of the blade.
I read the book, I don’t know who wrote it but what I remember is that it all was , Well. Pretty much what you told us here!!!! Fascinating Man!!!!! One amusing tale n the book tells of him exploring a cave somewhere in the Rockies, and finding a recently deceased white man In the cave he decided to eat the body! Interrupted by a Grizzly bear in this process, of butchering he had just severed one leg of the man’s body . He used this dead man’s leg for a club to beat and chase away the bear!!!!
There is not a Blackfoot tribe just Blackfeet the name Blackfoot is the name of a river in the bitterroot I am a proud member of the Blackfeet tribe. This story always intrigued me
He never married a flathead and never had an ongoing fight with crow. Maybe a fight with the Sioux. The book Crow killer is complete fiction. You need to do a little more research before you do a post.
@@jeffwarren6906 there are real research books out there that disprove most of her Thorp says in the book Crow Killer. When someone cannot provide research notes and says they were destroyed that is a red flag. Theere is no one by the name Del Gue anywhere in history. Another red flag.
You’ve got your history all screwed up. How could Hatcher have retired from the mountains in 1847 after teaching Jeremiah Johnson after Jeremiah Johnson had been in the Mexican-American war which was 1848?
The Jeremiah Johnson movie with Robert Redford was good , but i wished that they would remake the movie more like the real character in taking the scalps of his enemies and eating their liver.
According to a book that I read Jeremiah Johnson fought at the battle of Westport Missouri on October 23, 1864. Your video states that he was a member of the second Colorado cavalry and theydid a fight there. Can you tell me if he was at Westport?
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Fictitious story. In real life the man that became known as livery Johnson was never married to a flathead nor anyone else. While he was still alive and the story was being circulated in newspapers about him he actually wrote a letter to the editor of a Montana newspaper asking them to take back the false statements made about him and he stated in this letter that he had never been married to an Indian wife. I'm not even going to watch this video give me further I'm sure pretty soon they're going to get around the climbing that he was cutting people's livers out and eating them and that is total s***
@@sethwyo7905 you’re right, he never fought the Crows, but he did serve as a scout against the Lakota and Cheyenne, who were the enemies of the Crow and they also served as scouts against, if he did kill 300 Crows I’m sure he would’ve ran into some problems.
Seth doesn’t care if you want sources. He passionately h8s anyone who hasn’t denounced this video, the creator, and exclaim that they haven’t watched it and refuse to. Do those things then he’ll consider you worthy.
Thank you 💛. Whatever was going on with him, it was gross. Even if what you say is true about him stabbing and pulling knife out with some liver attached
"He just loved killing."
Nah, I'm pretty sure it was finding the remains of his wife and unborn child
You have to like killing at least a little to murder 300.
@samcooper1761 is just a means to an end
The media have always been absolute scum
A man has to have a hobby
Johnson was also known for his superb campfire biscuits.
The original liver king 👑
And fava beans.
😆
Mustard n biscuits. Mmm hmm
He made damn good biscuits!
He was the living breathing definition of vendetta.
"He died penniless." I would say he died a very rich man.
He definitely ate (nutrient) rich foods during his life! 😉
My thoughts exactly! He lived his life to the fullest, I would dare say that’s worth more than gold!
@@DoloresSeurat I believe experiences in life are far more valuable than any resource or monetary surplus.
Indeed, it’s easier to sleep when you know all your enemies are finally burning in hell… o yeah… without their livers, cuz he ate them. 😊
@@UnkyJosh420 one of the best FAFO from history. Another one I recently discovered was Olga of Kiev.
I have been to Cody, Wyoming, and I have personally stood right next to John Johnston's grave there.
I even have the home movie footage of it, first transferred from the original 8mm film (taken in 1977), then to VHS tape, then finally digitized.
Fun fact: Robert Redford, who portrayed Johnston (renamed as "Jeremiah Johnson," of course) actually served as one of the pallbearers for Johnston's body when it was relocated to Cody.
Tourists spend Millions of Dollars every year to visit sites throughout America while World Traveled Americans have Never been to Cody Wyoming or Newspaper Rock. Another Gravesite of Wild Bill Cody; Cody Wyoming and Lookout Mountain Golden Colorado.
One of Robert Redfords best movies....and an entertaining story...as most Dime novels and Tabloid "rag sheets" of the late 19th century and most "true" western tales came from.....like this one.
He went to the doctors and ask for something for his liver ,the doc gave him a bag of onions 😥
Good one!
Also some fava beans and a fine Chianti.🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
A real life Punisher that lived an amazing life , what happens when you piss some people off in the day!
Happened. Past tense
I ain't saying he a gold digger, he just eating up some Crow liver.
💯👍😎👌
Excellent telling. Johnson reading his own obituary was savage. 😏🌹
We agreed! Thanks for your kind feedback.
Amazed they had such modern Navy ships in the mid 19th century
Thank Doc Brown lol
It's a little known fact that the real Jeremiah Johnson served as a radar operator on an aircraft carrier.
Yeah then he like made a bunch of soaps and stuff
Quite a man, there are not a lot of men today who can say they have lived a more adventurous life, some of us just lived our lives and went where our loves took us. I was a soldier, then a law man for 8 and 24 years, I too loved adventure but in my day there were only foreign wars, and criminals to chase. I love the stories of the old mountain men, my wife an I used to talk of living the lone life on some mountain in the West but never took to the life. The last few years we had together before cancer took her from me, we traveled the South West in our Class A Motor home on mini adventures in the Mohave desert near the California Arizona border, staying in the free State of Arizona but taking day trips into the peoples republic of California to see the sights. I loved those days, and sure do miss my good lady, we had 51 years and 4 days of wedded bliss, she stood beside me during my Army days, waited at home when I went to war in Vietnam and lived through the next 8 years while I served in different Units across our great nation, she kissed me good bye when I went off to patrol the streets and hugged me when I got home alive the following morning. Now I sit here and enjoy the tales of the Old west and remember the wonderful days as my wife and I lived the good life.
Thank you for sharing your life story and for your service to the country. We send condolences your way. Your wife sounds like she was an incredible human to share this life with. May our old west videos continue to bring you joy, and may the memories of exploring the American West alongside your wife never fade.
Talk about having 5 guys for lunch🤣
300 ? No hunger. Lol
Kamala's had more 🤣🤣🤣
Nice one!
Oh… you mean “that” Carl jr. Lol
In reality he did not eat the liver. He did it to inspire fear of himself in them.
Liver eating johnson does have a certain ring to it
Were they good eating.?
@@AishaShaw-cl6wc
Especially with fava beans and a fine Chianti.🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
Liver Eating Jeremiah
The Original Liver King.
Read the books and watched the movie. When the movie came out, HBO had just come on the scene. HBO Channel 100 they called and would play a movie for 24 hrs. over and over again. I watched that movie the whole day and still love it.
Great story, I never knew Johnson was real character.
Lmfao.
Some Fava beans, and a nice Chianti…😂😂😂😂😂
God I loved that movie as a kid & it always shows when it starts to get cold outside, I watch it every time it comes on.
Man… I won’t even eat beef liver 😮
Red Lodge, MT still has his small cabin*(12X8 maybe) standing as part of a (very)small local museum. A broken metal bed frame and a few of his things are still inside. It looks like a very rough way to live. There are a few notches near one of the doors. Not sure if it has any meaning, but maybe.
*not the one that burnt down obviously.
Census takers who came to his door and he...
GR8 post,
Thx 😊
Robert Redford portrayed him in a movie “ in real life he looked like Charles Mansion.
Manson...you are right the likenes is uncanny!
Jeremiah Johnson! My dad showed this movie to me back in the day. Love it!
Best movie! This has to be where they got the story. I just started watching.
A lot of this isn’t true but he must definitely was quite a man. A little embellishment still makes for a good story, as long as you know, the truth, I don’t like being lied to.
You sure about that, not being lied to? I
I like how you read. Also the video is really good. I love to learn. I-remember the Redford movie but I never knew this dude was for real.
That was why I appreciate you.
@@Chronicheaven he wasn’t liver eating Johnson was a real person but he never killed Crows that all came from a fictional book that was considered fact by historians until recently.
Eric Cantona's anscestors were wild too
Johnson was born in 1824 & the Mexican-American war began in 1846. He wouldve been 22yo and not underage. Also, surprisingly, the average American in the 1850's was 5'10", not 5'6". It's now 5'9". (Us American's are shrinking)
This research found these mistakes in less than 5 minutes, and the podcast was less than 3 minutes old. Call me old fashioned, but if I was going to do a podcast on history or a historical figure, i might want to do the bare minimum amount of research that a 3rd grade teacher would expect of her pupil before turning in his paper.
All the best.
@@seandavey6049 I doubt the average height was known in the 1850s
You are an excellent narrator. Great voice and diction
Crow Killer……definitely an old west legend.
Larger than life!
Absolutely fascinating.
He was certainly an interesting character though I am sure his exploits were exaggerated..didn’t look
Much like Robert Redford either 😃
The crow usually got along with the white…Custer was at the little big horn at the request of the crow to protect them from the Sioux that was on their land
The movie is very entertaining !
From what I’ve heard the story about him killing 300 Crows is completely untrue, this was based off of the book lover eating Johnson or whatever it was called, and was considered accurate by historians up until pretty recently. The Crows were very friendly toward the US and served as scouts for the US army against the Lakota in the 1860s and 1870s. Even if he did actually fight the crows it’s highly unlikely he killed 300. To kill that many he would basically have to spend all his time finding Crows to kill and somehow gotten lucky enough to survive every encounter with them and not get killed himself. From what I’ve heard about the actually story of liver eating Johnson is he was a mountain man and fought in the campaigns against the Sioux and Cheyenne and was a great Indian fighter, the story of him liver eating allegedly came from when in battle he killed a Lakota warrior with a knife and when he pulled the knife out of his stomach a piece of the warriors liver was on the knife and Johnson licked the blood off of the blade.
Smoking too much peace pipe homie it’s true story
@@searchforthetruth1998 based off of what evidence?
I also think the story is overblown. American style
😊I'm@@bonnieprincecharlie6248
@@bonnieprincecharlie6248Too funny! You have no citations, but challenge another commenter.
Eric Cantona is the reincarnation of this man.
Lol it looks just like him
Ze seagulls follow ze trawler 😅
I read the book, I don’t know who wrote it but what I remember is that it all was , Well. Pretty much what you told us here!!!! Fascinating Man!!!!! One amusing tale n the book tells of him exploring a cave somewhere in the Rockies, and finding a recently deceased white man
In the cave he decided to eat the body! Interrupted by a Grizzly bear in this process, of butchering he had just severed one leg of the man’s body . He used this dead man’s leg for a club to beat and chase away the bear!!!!
just found this channel. love it
Thank you! We hope you stick around!
@@footprintsofthefrontier np
also look up wild West evestragangxa
@@footprintsofthefrontier u like this look up wild West evestragangxa
Good Story...But most Not True
That script is right out of Wikipedia
They sometimes twist the truth 😮
One of the greatest movies ever. Sydney Pollacks masterpiece imho.
“You’ve come far, pilgrim.”
“Yeah. It feels like far.”
Blackfeet is not the plural of Blackfoot. They are different tribes.
There is not a Blackfoot tribe just Blackfeet the name Blackfoot is the name of a river in the bitterroot I am a proud member of the Blackfeet tribe. This story always intrigued me
Do you think they got into a bloody trademark war?
He never married a flathead and never had an ongoing fight with crow. Maybe a fight with the Sioux. The book Crow killer is complete fiction. You need to do a little more research before you do a post.
How do you know this ? Just asking , I am not being a smart-alec .
@@jeffwarren6906 there are real research books out there that disprove most of her Thorp says in the book Crow Killer. When someone cannot provide research notes and says they were destroyed that is a red flag. Theere is no one by the name Del Gue anywhere in history. Another red flag.
Look into Culver City Montana where the legend was born it is on the mouth of the Mushellshell river and it was a Sioux not a Crow
Kia Ora hello from Aotearoa new zealand hay thank you for putting it straight 👏👏👏 too much miss information out there changing history
Yep an inexperienced researcher like me was able to easily find that this was in fact a completely fabricated tall tale of the real life man.
Vicious story 😢
Nah just a western man😊
This was my great-great-great-grandfather.
Oddly enough his an my ancestors were in Jamestown the first winter so also cannibals.
How is that possible when his wife and only child were killed? You obviously didn't hear that part, huh, before lying?
Give me a break. 😂
@@janicem9225 Yes, because the random youtube creator knows more than Ancestry and 23andme.🤣
Give me a break.
I Haven't Heard of This Guy, Watching From Texas
Seems to be a lot of myth mixed in with fact. Can anyone suggest a reliable source on his life?
I doubt you could find the truth without the embellishment added.
@@phillhuddleston9445 Yeah, that's always the way of it.
The original Liver King!
You’ve got your history all screwed up. How could Hatcher have retired from the mountains in 1847 after teaching Jeremiah Johnson after Jeremiah Johnson had been in the Mexican-American war which was 1848?
history is a relative thing. Johnson was the grandpa of Chuck Norris, he could do anything
@@brentbergeson3277 just believe
Ya it's fake as hell to give settlers hope and entertainment. Better off believing movies are real 🤦
Lol...the gold rush to Alder Gulch Montana didn't begin until 1868!😅
The Jeremiah Johnson movie with Robert Redford was good , but i wished that they would remake the movie more like the real character in taking the scalps of his enemies and eating their liver.
What an amazing story!
This guy is awesome. He avenged his loss from a random, violent, and barbaric tribe.
Imagine this dude signing up for the army with at least 300 confirmed kills already under his belt lmao
Was he on an aircraft carrier?
Destroyer class 3
A man like that can live three hundred years such are the size of his balls
Legend has it he only used a little salt and pepper 🤣😂
Liver King really looking rough these days
You should not eat other humans, it will inevitably destroy your insides
Ole Liver Tastin' Johnson!
Westport was the largest Civil War battle west of the Mississippi.
The original Liver King
He was all natty too
My kind of feller.
excellent job on this
Thank you! Cheers!
Quite right.
He was just better skilled than his opponents.
If this dude ate my liver it would be game over for the both of us.
According to a book that I read Jeremiah Johnson fought at the battle of Westport Missouri on October 23, 1864. Your video states that he was a member of the second Colorado cavalry and theydid a fight there. Can you tell me if he was at Westport?
Gosh, do you think there might have been more than one Jeremiah Johnson?
With yellow onion and brown gravy yum yum
Never confirmed to have ate any human liver or any human flesh.
After having your liver eaten by Johnson one could consider themselves delivered
Yeah this was not a man you wanna push unless your prepared for rack and ruin.
Agreed!
When true freedom existed.
Freedom for your ancestors to enslave and ethics cleanings right MAGA member?
'Specially for blacks and natives!
@alexyoungberg5232 yes. Not all blacks were slaves. Blacks and Indians owned slaves too. Less government equals more freedom. Freedom is dangerous.
Is this the big bear-like character from The Hateful 8 with Denzel Washington?
I have a Jeremiah Johnson cookbook
The movie starring Robert Redford is one of my favorites.
Can you skin Grizz pilgrim?
This isnt the top 5s guy?
This is one of the channels from his network, among Cold Case Detective, Destination Declassified, Murderous Minds, Meretime Mysteries, and some new other channels. Not all the same narrator but all in collaboration with original Top 5s narrator
@@AndrewMarloweTV gotcha
@@scarzofmayhem5263 yea , all good channels
Fictitious story. In real life the man that became known as livery Johnson was never married to a flathead nor anyone else. While he was still alive and the story was being circulated in newspapers about him he actually wrote a letter to the editor of a Montana newspaper asking them to take back the false statements made about him and he stated in this letter that he had never been married to an Indian wife.
I'm not even going to watch this video give me further I'm sure pretty soon they're going to get around the climbing that he was cutting people's livers out and eating them and that is total s***
I would like your sources, please and thank you :)
@@ashtonhaggitt216 Someone researched the story. It is quite long but informative.
th-cam.com/video/8OMnsDyDE18/w-d-xo.html
Bet you're a blast at parties.
@@sethwyo7905 you’re right, he never fought the Crows, but he did serve as a scout against the Lakota and Cheyenne, who were the enemies of the Crow and they also served as scouts against, if he did kill 300 Crows I’m sure he would’ve ran into some problems.
Seth doesn’t care if you want sources. He passionately h8s anyone who hasn’t denounced this video, the creator, and exclaim that they haven’t watched it and refuse to.
Do those things then he’ll consider you worthy.
Cannibal Johnson is an Enclave Remnant
Jeremiah Johnson
you sure he died poor?> lol - sounds like john wick frontier style
Jersey don’t mess around
Poor information content 😢
Mmmm I love liver, "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." Ftftftftft
Dude said leg jerky 😭
The original liver king
Traded his daughter for animal skins. How did mom feel about that.
The real liver king
Rambo liver eatin' Johnson
Cool story.
We thought so too!
hes still out there
Thank you 💛. Whatever was going on with him, it was gross. Even if what you say is true about him stabbing and pulling knife out with some liver attached
According to some bourgeoise basic B superimposing the fake domestication of 2024 on this man's life, no one cares what you think.
Talk about eating crow😅
They send over a couple of monsters to the natives. sad.
The original liver king?
based
🐐
back when men were men.
he wasn't 280 pounds, and yes there's no way to prove this, but f me it would be as credible to say he's 350 if we're going off that logic
Is it just me or does he look just like Charles Manson
Looks like Charles mansion