See Jemimah Johnson for maybe the inspiration behind that character.
I remember reading a book about "Liver Eating" Johnson a long time ago was both fascinated and repulsed by some acts attributed to the person. The movie steers away from most of the really gruesome stuff but still leaves you with the impression that "soft" and "Mountain Man" are two terms not likely to ever be used in the same sentence.
Although I just apparently did.
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