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And we continue with our American stories.

The lore and legend of the American Mountain Man is a story that only seems to grow with

time.

In 2015, Leonardo DiCaprio played the legendary mountain man Hugh Glass in The Revenant.

In 1972, Robert Redford starred as the title character in Jeremiah Johnson.

Here to separate fact from fiction is Ashley Lubinsky. Ashley is the former co-host of Discovery Channel's Master of Arms,

the former curator in charge of the Cody Firearms Museum,

and she's president of the gun code LLC.

Here's Ashley.

I used to run this very large museum in the American West,

and on display at that museum,

there was a firearm called a hawken rifle and a buoy knife with a sheath.

And these two things belong to a man named liver-eating jogson.

Although that's not really his name.

His name was John Johnston with a tea, but he also, at some points in his life, went by John Garrison,

John Johnson with no tea,

because spelling standardization wasn't a thing in the 1800s, Jack Johnson,

and then by his prolific mythic name, Live Reading Johnson.

And a lot of people who'd come to the museum would also call him Jeremiah Johnson.

And the reason behind that was because of a movie that was starring Robert Redford called

Jeremiah Johnson in 1972.

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