Raymond W. Thorp is author of Bowie Knife and Spirit Gun of the West: The Story of Doc W. F. Carver, among other titles. Nathan E. Bender is an independent scholar and consultant in Laramie, Wyoming, who has written extensively on the Old West.
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Introduction by Nathan E. Bender Foreword by Richard M. Dorson Preface Acknowledgments Part One: The Young Trapper 1. The Making of a Legend 2. The Hair Merchants 3. An Apprenticeship 4. A Madness 5. Oath of Vengeance Part Two: Liver-Eating Johnson 6. A Man's Reputation 7. Twined Scalps 8. Crow Against Flathead 9. Winter Holiday, Spring Council 10. . . . A Missing Chapter Part Three: A Man Among Men 11. The Eighteenth Warrior 12. Captive of the Blackfeet 13. Mountain-Man Rendezvous 14. Boots and Biscuits 15. Portuguese Phillips 16. A Sioux Liver 17. Monument for a Foe's Friend 18. Target for Gray Bear Part Four: Brother of the Crows 19. White Chief of the Shoshoni 20. Biscuits for Blackfeet 21. A Last Departure 22. Mariano and the Ute Chief 23. The Piegan Princess 24. Eight Scalps for the Crows Part Five: The Old Trapper 25. Burial for Bear Claw 26. Sheriff Johnson 27. Last Trail 28. Lodge by the Sea Glossary of Native Peoples in Crow Killer
It's a robust story, almost incredible-a saga of hardship, cruelty and terrible dangers through which John Johnson, tough and shrewd as he undoubtedly was, did not emerge unscathed. This is the stuff of folklore at its authentic best. (New York Times Book Review) . . . [Johnson] emerges as flesh and blood, with the emphasis on blood. His story is the material from which grand opera might be made. (Saturday Review) . . . warrants a place on any shelf of Western Americana. (San Francisco Chronicle) Spectacular to repellent, this is a part of Western life as it must have been. . . (Kirkus Reviews)