MSM - not a drug

Must see movies:

Lawrence of Arabia
Saving Private Ryan
The Wind and the Lion ( no not the Chronicles of Narnia )
Roughriders

Jeremiah Johnson
The Outlaw Josie Wales
Kingdom of Heaven
The bridge at Remagen

" Jeremiah Johnson " for example, is a loose adaptation of a story about " Liver Eating Johnson " a Mountain Man of the 1850's.  Robert Redford is the hero starting as a tenderfoot trapper who luckily falls into hands of Bearclaw Chris Lapp for mountain tutelage (  " bloodkin to the grizzly that bit Jim Bridger's ass " ). Yep, he succeeds and " some folks think he's up there still ".
A Sidney Pollack film shot in under a month (?) w/ a teensy budget.  Colouful w/ majestic shots of the Rocky Mts ( " the Andes is foothills for children to play in " ).
Everytime that I see " JJ ", I want to be a moutain man. Except in the film JJ sleeps outside in a blanket under a pine and wakes up in the morning and his horse has frozen to death. Personally, I use an electric blanket for sleeping. Apparently, electrical outlets are scarce in the Rockies in 1850.

Bearclaw ; you come far pilgrim
JJ            : feels like far
BC          : were it worth the trouble
JJ            : huh, what trouble ( he's been shot / stabbed / hatcheted / arrowed / lost a wife and adopted son
                                               / fallen in the river and used rags for mittens )

But I do want a Hawken gun ( " it were a genuine Hawken, can't get no better " ). This is , of course , a muzzle loader that will make you deaf and burn off half your face if you're not careful.

You need to register a black powder rifle. M says the rifle is a threat. My line is " Yeah, the blackpowder rifle is a threat, as in , stand 6 ft away at least, b/c I want to shoot you. No ,don't get any closer "