Jeremiah ' liver eating ' Johnson is actually buried right here in the L.A. Veteran's cemetary <img src="images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> I read everything I could about the man,inspired by the cult movie of my generation. I lost all interest reading a two volume set about Hawken rifles. It seems an early conversion was the Spenser rifle with a Hawken octagonal barrel. A young indian boy killed a man trying to rape his sister. He was rewarded with the man's rifle ( this conversion) for his bravery. Johnson saw the rifle and murdered the boy for possession. When he realized it did not have the repeating ability of the Spensor AND the Hawken's power it was discarded <img src="images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />. A true story of mountainman survival is "The Ordeal of Hugh Glass."