The Wild West Extravaganza

The Wild West Extravaganza


43 - Liver Eating Johnson: Part 2

March 08, 2021

This is Part 2! If you have not already done so, give Part 1 a listen! As the Liver-Eater's reputation grew he began working as a guide for prospectors and a scout for General Miles, against the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Nez Perce. Later he'd take jobs in law enforcement in Coulson and Red Lodge, Montana, work in a Wild West Show, and even grow cabbages! And Johnson's story doesn't even end when he dies! Was Robert Redford really one of Johnson's pallbearers? Did he really have a Crow wife? Did he ever actually kill any Crow warriors? Could he have possibly been born in 1841? Did he really lasso a whale???? Find out all this and more on this "You've come far, pilgrim" part 2 edition of Bloody Beaver Podcast! Check out my website for more true stories from the wild and woolly west! Bonus content available on Patreon! Liver-Eating Johnston: The Dust Never Settles on a Legend, by Dennis McLelland Liver-Eating Johnson's rifle for auction??? Liver-Eating Johnson's Hawken Rifle & Bowie Knife??? The Never-Ending Lives of Liver-Eating Johnson by D.J. Herda Crow Killer, New Edition: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson, by Thorpe, Bunker, & Bender Mountain Man, by Vardis Fisher Liver-Eating Johnson: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Mountain Man, by Charles Rivers Editors The Avenging Fury of the Plains, by Dennis J. McLelland I Buried Hickok: The Memoirs of White Eye Anderson, by Joseph F. Anderson My Life as an Indian, by James W. Schultz My Sixty Years on the Plains, by W.T. Hamilton