Whereabouts of "Liver Eating" Johnson's guns

[Rembrandt]

Started reading the book "Crow Killer", the saga of Liver Eating Jeremiah Johnson. Seems in his earlier years his trademark was a matching rosewood-handled Walker Colt and Bowie knife.....even took great pains to regain them from his Blackfoot captors. Later after the Civil War he changed weapons and used a stone tomahawk and .45 Army Colt.

Can his guns be found in any known museums or collections.....or did they fade away in history?

The book is a far cry from the Hollywood version played by Robert Redford. Johnson was probably one of the frontiers first known serial killers and cannibals....killed over 300 Crow Indians, ate their livers in revenge for killing his wife and unborn child.

In one instance he escaped and cut off the leg of a Indian captor, carried it as a food source for nearly 200 miles. Wish they'd remake a movie to follow the book more accurately. The Redford version is kind of a sissy take on a legend.

 

[VirgilCaine]

Wish they'd remake a movie to follow the book more accurately. The Redford version is kind of a sissy take on a legend.

Of course it is, how do you think the story became a legend in the first place?

 

[Biker]

Yes, I read that book a couple of decades ago. Helluva read. It seems that he only took a bite or two of the livers to leave his mark, so to speak, according to historians.
That was one tough man...

Biker