On Jeremiah Johnson

David Gessner at the American Scholar discusses the film "Jeremiah Johnson," noting that the script excited Robert Redford, who described it as “closer to the real West than anything I’d ever read or seen.” The script was written by John Milius, based on Vardis Fisher’s 1965 novel "Mountain Man" and the 1958 biography "Crow Killer" by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker.