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Jeremiah Johnson

Picking Nits

Food, burial-ground communication and timing, leaving the family, Crow tactics, and Jeremiah joining the rescue are questioned.

In the discussion (6)
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  • The group asks why Jeremiah does not eat his dead horse when food is scarce.
  • Jeremiah is said to need a firmer way to refuse crossing the burial ground.
  • Leaving Woman and the boy alone after seeing an earlier massacre is criticized.
  • The timing of finding Swan’s trinket and returning from the rescue is questioned.
  • The Crow fighters repeatedly attacking one-on-one without changing tactics are questioned.
  • Jeremiah joining the cavalry rescue despite rejecting religion is questioned and defended as lingering soldierly duty.