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Motorcycle Search for Liver-Eating Johnston Photo Gallery
This month Dr. Gregory Frazier’s adventure-motorcycle journey sends him in search of the American mountain man known as Liver-Eating Johnston. Read the full story of Dr. Frazier's
Motorcycle Search for Liver-Eating Johnston
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Headstone for Jacques La Ramie on the Wyoming prairie, well away from the Interstate 25.
Modern day soldiers at Fort Laramie, Wyoming reliving the years Liver-Eating Johnson passed through here.
Fort Fetterman was one of several US Army forts my motorcycle took me to along the Bozeman Trail, and where I nearly stepped on a rattlesnake.
Open range was still along the edge of the Big Horn Mountains where once Johnston hunted and trapped
Some of the Bozeman Trail Johnston followed was still passable by road but some crossed private lands where I could not ride the motorcycle.
I had to cross the Big Horn River by a cement constructed bridge. 150 years earlier my motorcycle would have been floated across the river on a handmade raft.
There was still a large expanse of open country to be explored by an avid adventurer on two wheels following Johnston’s trails.
Free camping gave me a taste of living in the wild, not much changed from when Johnston lived here.
Not all of today’s land owners along Johnston’s trail are friendly towards motorcycle riders, or “bikers,” as I was called.
This was the end of my trail for the day. The high, fast moving water brought my motorcycle to a halt on this trail.
Johnston’s log cabin, in Red Lodge, Montana, was well preserved.
The Carbon County Historical Society Museum in Red Lodge promised the “truth” about “Liver Eatin” Johnston for $3.00 admission fee.
The final resting place for Liver Eating Johnston, Old Trail Town, is just west of Cody, Wyoming.
“No more trails” says well the end of a lifetime of adventure for an adventurer.
