[Red Bullets]

Here's a real interesting tidbit....

Some of you will remember the movie Jeremiah Johnston. The movie depicted Johnston as a mountain man in the early 1800's that trapped and had to fight first nations and he became a legend in his own time. The tales tell of him being feared as a bad spirit and because he fought many hand to hand combats with FN and survived. Legend says he ate the livers of the losers of those fights and he got the name "Liver eating Johnston".

In reality he did not eat the livers of the losers. But he did engage in deadly combats with FN. Most people think of him as this mountain man in the early 1800's being around Montana trapping and hunting. They even made the movie about him but they didn't tell the whole story...

The reason I mention Liver Eating Johnston is he was in Alberta territory for a while too. He was here from 1868 to 1873.

Johnston and J.X. Beidler got together and peddled bootlegged whiskey to FNs around Fort Whoop Up until about 1873 just before the NWMP marched west in 1874. Whoop Up territory was part of the reason the law was coming west. Whoop up territory was a very dangerous place at the time.

Fort Whoop Up is near Lethbridge.

This image is the first known photograph of Johnston. Picture was taken when he was on scout during the 1876-1877 Sioux campaign in Montana Territory.
Johnston lived from to 1824-1900. Love his old buffalo gun...