RE: Dang I love that movie!!!
Sometimes I wonder whichare a moretruthful accountof thing's, the book's or Movies.... I happen to notice looking over"Crow Killer" it list's the book as "Fictional Biography". I know when they make some of these movies today like "TROY" the spend a great deal of time and money researching the History itself and the people of the time.
I also happen to noticeon Amazon.com there are1/2 dozen other books about Mountain men including Jim Bridger. I'm willing to bet the majority of these book'sare pretty accurate in there account of the way things were back then.I think "Jeremiah Johnson" and "Mountain Men" are darn good movies. I don't think you can expect everything in a movie or book to be 100% accurate. They do have to use some "Creative License"orthey wouldbe documentaries,certainly not as entertaining as movies.The actor's can also make or break a movie and they had some great ones in those two flicks.