Mountain Man (novel)

First edition (publ. William Morrow)

Mountain Man is a 1965 novel written by Vardis Fisher. Set in the mid-1800s United States, it tells the story of Sam Minard, a hunter/trapper living and wandering throughout Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. The book is separated into three parts: Lotus, Kate and Sam. The novel is largely a fictionalized retelling of the experiences of the real mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson. The book was adapted for Sydney Pollack's 1972 film Jeremiah Johnson.