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TIL that in 1847 the wife of Mountain Man John Johnson was killed by a group of Crow Indians which prompted Johnson to embark on a vendetta against the tribe. He supposedly killed and scalped more than 300 Crow Indians and then devoured their livers to avenge the death of his wife.

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