Mountain Man is a 1965 novel written by Vardis Fisher. Set in the mid-1800s United States, it tells the story of Sam Minard, a hunter/trapper living and wandering throughout Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. The book is separated into three parts: Lotus, Kate and Sam. The novel is largely a fictionalized retelling of the experiences of the real mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson. According to biographer Dorys C. Grover, Warner Brothers filmed an adaptation of Mountain Man in 1972, released as Sydney Pollack's Jeremiah Johnson.
Adaptations (1)
Mountain Man was adapted into a 1972 film.
Jeremiah Johnson1972 · film · 108 min · dir. Sydney Pollack · IMDb ↗A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.
