3 Works in Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
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Another in the series where I watch half a movie and then come up with a story that finishes it, most likely very different from how it actually ended. In this installment, we have Robert Redford's 1972 "Jeremiah Johnson". I bumped up the publication of this by two days when I heard the actor had passed away this morning.
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- Part 2 of Half-finished
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- English
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Fandom Character Death Match Tournament Bracket 30, Round 1, Match 16: John Dunbar vs. Jeremiah Johnson by magic8ballzz
Fandoms: Dances with Wolves (1990), Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
29 Jul 2025
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In the primal Crucible of Convergence, where the Nexus Tournament demands a single survivor, John Dunbar, the battle-hardened soldier of the plains, faces Jeremiah Johnson, the indomitable mountain man, in a raw clash of survival and instinct. Amid a foreboding forest of ancient pines and treacherous moss, Dunbar’s disciplined tactics and desperate resolve collide with Johnson’s rugged ferocity and wilderness-honed skill. This intense tale explores themes of survival, respect, and the harrowing cost of victory, culminating in a brutal showdown that leaves only one standing, forever scarred by the weight of a hard-fought triumph.
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- Part 898 of Fandom Character Death Match Tournament
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- English
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- 1/1
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Between 1854 and 1929, up to a quarter of a million children from New York City and other Eastern cities were sent by train to towns in the Midwestern and Western states.
The orphan trains as they were later known served to remove children from slums and get them off the streets by transporting them to 'good' homes out West. Life in the rural Midwest was deemed better for the children than life in a crowded Eastern city, where epidemics of typhoid, flu, and yellow fever left many children orphaned. But not all the children put on the trains were orphaned, many were simply abandoned or their parents could no longer take care of them due to poverty or illness.
Rather than placing children into the overcrowded and bleak orphanages, the Children's Aid Society placed them out of the area and in a family setting in rural America where they were to be of service to those taking them in.
This is the story of eleven year old John who was one of those children.