Jeremiah Johnson Quotes

Del Gue I cannot brag on your choice of campsites.

Hatchet Jack I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do hereby leaveth my bear rifle to whatever finds it, Lord hope it be a white man. It is a good rifle, and killt the bear that killt me. Anyway, I am dead. Yours truly, Hatchet Jack.

Taglines The man who became a legend. The film destined to be a classic!

Del Gue “I ain’t never seen ’em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills and the Alps is for children to climb. Keep good care of your hair. These here is God’s finest sculpturins and there ain’t no laws for the brave ones. And there ain’t no asylums for the crazy ones. And there ain’t no churches excepting for this right here. And there ain’t no priests excepting the birds. By God I are a mountain man and I’ll live until an arrow or a bullet finds me and then I’ll leave my bones right here on this great map of the magnificent…

Taglines His Mountain. His Peace. His Great Hunts. His Young Bride. With All That, It Should Have Been Different.

Del Gue He may be a Christian and speak of the bible, but he still an Indian, and his rules is his rules. If you value your hair, you will get married!

Jeremiah Johnson Indians put you here?

Del Gue Ain't that Hatchet Jack's rifle?

Del Gue You turn down this gift, and they'll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler!

Narrator His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows where abouts he come from and don't seem to matter much. He was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none. He was looking for a Hawken gun, .50 caliber or better. He settled for a .30, but damn, it was a genuine Hawken, and you couldn't go no better. Bought him a good horse, and traps, and other truck that went with being a mountain man, and said good-bye to whatever life was down there below.

Del Gue No one's passed in front of me, can't say what's happened behind me.

Del Gue You can take her to Fort Hauley and sell her, but you best take her my friend. Maybe she ain't near bad.

Jeremiah Johnson Hawk. Goin for the Musselshell. Take me a week's ridin', and he'll be there in... hell, he's there already.

Taglines A man of peace driven wild!

Del Gue There's a fine horse under me.

Del Gue I didn't know they was gonna be Flatheads.

Jeremiah Johnson Stop that, boy!

Jeremiah Johnson Feels like far.

Bear Claw Were it worth the trouble?

Jeremiah Johnson Ah, what trouble?

Taglines Some say he's dead...some say he never will be.