Jeremiah Johnson, disillusioned by society, sets out to be a mountain man in the mid-1800s. Jeremiah Johnson is a man who turns his back on humanity and learns a new code of survival in a brutal land of isolated mountains and hostile Indians.

An American ex- soldier heads to the mountains to escape civilization but after Crows kill his family in retaliation for violation of a bural ground he becomes embroiled in a long-running vendetta. Mother lode: Two bush pilots and a girl travel to British Coumbia to find the gold hidden by the McGee brothers.