Hello, need a reply to Ashley post.
Original instructions- HISTORY FROM HOLLYWOOD
Many of our upcoming discussions about American History before 1877 connect to the themes and plot lines of famous films produced by Hollywood. For this discussion, you need to find a film that focuses on an actual historical event rather than simply being set in the past.
For this informal discussion, you are welcome to use some of the more popular websites and online sources that we would normally avoid. In this regard, you can pursue imdb.com and other websites as you formulate your post.
Ashley post-
Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 western film that depicts the life of a true character in history during the 1860s and 1870s. Jeremiah Johnson was a veteran of the Mexican War who wanted to live out his life in the mountains away from people. Jeremiah comes across a cabin that was attacked by Indians from the Crow Tribe, leaving only a distraught mother and one son alive. The mother requests that Jeremiah takes the son as his own. Later Jeremiah gets married to the chief’s daughter of the Flathead tribe. The three start a life together and build a home when one day Jeremiah was asked to escort a calvary unit through a passage way. When he returned home, Jeremiah found his wife and adopted son murdered by the Crow tribe. Jeremiah took up vengeance upon the Crow tribe, found and killed the members of the tribe who murdered his family which started a war with the Crow tribe.
There is agreeance that there was a real character named Jeremiah Johnston that later turned into Johnson, however the real story of Jeremiah was greatly softened for Hollywood. There are stories of Jeremiah killing over 1,000 members of the Crow tribe. Jeremiah would move along killing the members in vengeance and eating their livers. One story in particular stated that the Crow tribe sent over 300 to kill Jeremiah, but Jeremiah single handily defended himself (Maccar). Jeremiah would soon be known as the “Crow Killer”. No one knows the true number or that Jeremiah was an actual cannibal however on his tombstone states “John ‘Jeremiah Liver-Eating’ Johnston” (Maccar).
After the war with the Crow tribe and Jeremiah in the 1860s and 70s, Jeremiah went on to tell his tales of the wild west. There is speculation that the tales were over exaggerated and can explain the many possible stories of Jeremiah Johnson.
Maccar, David. “The True Story behind ‘Jeremiah Johnson’: What We Know (and Don’t).” Free Range American, August 9, 2022. https://freerangeamerican.us/true-story-jeremiah-johnson/.
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