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A mountain man spent 25 years eating the livers of the people who killed his wife

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 25, 2026
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In 1847, a young Crow hunting party killed the wife of John Garrison Johnston, a former Navy deserter turned mountain man in Montana Territory. According to historian Andrew Mehane Southerland, “He supposedly killed and scalped more than 300 Crow Indians and then devoured their livers” to avenge her de…

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