I've read the book, seen the movie and visited the Museum in Buffalo, WY., and Crazy Woman's cabin south of there. I live in Montana and know the Salish lived east of the Rockies in Montana before 1850. I find it hard to believe Johnson took his wife to Colorado, and harder to believe that Crow Warriors crossed Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Shoshone, and even possibly Yampa territory in their raids. The Little Snake is in NW Colorado, along the Wyoming line, and drains into the Yampa and then the Colorado R.. Were the Crow living South of the now Jim Bridger Wilderness in those days?
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