What was the real first name of the legendary character on whom the film "Jeremiah Johnson" was partly based?
Jeremiah Johnson (film):  It is said to have been based partly on the life of the legendary mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson, recounted in Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker's book "Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson" and Vardis Fisher's "Mountain Man". Liver-Eating Johnson: John "Liver-Eating" Johnson born John Jeremiah Johnston (c.1824 – January 21, 1900) was a mountain man of the American Old West.
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