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Reminds me of some JPP righties....
A notorious “mountain man,” who abducted a world-class athlete in 1984 to keep as a wife for his son, wrote that blame for the “incident” lies with her and a would-be rescuer whom he shot and killed.
In July of 1984 the Nichols ambushed Kari Swenson with guns while she was on a training run in the mountains above the resort town of Big Sky.
They forced her into the woods and kept her chained her to a tree most of the time when would-be rescuers stumbled upon the camp.
In the melee, Dan Nichols shot Swenson.
An armed standoff ensued, and the elder Swenson gunned down Alan Goldstein.
The Nichols left Swenson severely wounded and escaped into the woods.
The experienced woodsmen evaded capture for five months living in the Madison Range, until a daring Madison County sheriff and former bronco buster named Johnny France took it upon himself to follow a tip and gave chase alone before storming the Nichols camp and forcing their surrender.
Swenson, despite diminished lung capacity from the gunshot wound, went on to win a bronze medal in the world biathlon championships.
Don Nichols undoubtedly will need to be more contrite later this month in front of the historically stern Montana Parole Board.
“We more or less only intimidated Kari into coming with us. We were only going to keep her with us for a few days if it didn’t work out,” Nichols wrote in a collection of letters, journals and lengthy manuscript dating from the late 1980s and early 1990s now housed at the University of Montana library.
“Also, we treated her very humanely all the time, in fact cordially, except for the unusual circumstances. I did not hit Kari. The chain involved was a real lightweight chain. One end was fastened comfortably around her waist and other end around a tree.”
Nichols had a far different take on the series of events, believing he was being unfairly judged by people who didn’t understand nature or the mountains.
His “manuscript”, written in tight cursive and finished in 1992, trashed modern society.
The writing is filled with a yearning for pioneer days that Nichols believed more natural, castigates businessmen and politicians as the real thieves and killers, and claims “civilization is the insane byproduct” of rules and laws.
All conspire to trample freedom, he argued, like the “virtual Nazis” running the country. He goes on to argue his victims are to blame for the events, and believed it was being twisted by a “corrupt” media.
The parole hearings comes as Dan Nichols — paroled in 1991 from his kidnapping and assault sentence received for his role in the infamous crime — is in trouble with the law again.
Jefferson County officials issued an arrest warrant last month for the younger Nichols after he failed to show up for a pretrial hearing in a drug case.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...es-victims/2012/04/14/gIQABtQbHT_story_1.html
Remind anyone else of a JPP poster?
A notorious “mountain man,” who abducted a world-class athlete in 1984 to keep as a wife for his son, wrote that blame for the “incident” lies with her and a would-be rescuer whom he shot and killed.
In July of 1984 the Nichols ambushed Kari Swenson with guns while she was on a training run in the mountains above the resort town of Big Sky.
They forced her into the woods and kept her chained her to a tree most of the time when would-be rescuers stumbled upon the camp.
In the melee, Dan Nichols shot Swenson.
An armed standoff ensued, and the elder Swenson gunned down Alan Goldstein.
The Nichols left Swenson severely wounded and escaped into the woods.
The experienced woodsmen evaded capture for five months living in the Madison Range, until a daring Madison County sheriff and former bronco buster named Johnny France took it upon himself to follow a tip and gave chase alone before storming the Nichols camp and forcing their surrender.
Swenson, despite diminished lung capacity from the gunshot wound, went on to win a bronze medal in the world biathlon championships.
Don Nichols undoubtedly will need to be more contrite later this month in front of the historically stern Montana Parole Board.
“We more or less only intimidated Kari into coming with us. We were only going to keep her with us for a few days if it didn’t work out,” Nichols wrote in a collection of letters, journals and lengthy manuscript dating from the late 1980s and early 1990s now housed at the University of Montana library.
“Also, we treated her very humanely all the time, in fact cordially, except for the unusual circumstances. I did not hit Kari. The chain involved was a real lightweight chain. One end was fastened comfortably around her waist and other end around a tree.”
Nichols had a far different take on the series of events, believing he was being unfairly judged by people who didn’t understand nature or the mountains.
His “manuscript”, written in tight cursive and finished in 1992, trashed modern society.
The writing is filled with a yearning for pioneer days that Nichols believed more natural, castigates businessmen and politicians as the real thieves and killers, and claims “civilization is the insane byproduct” of rules and laws.
All conspire to trample freedom, he argued, like the “virtual Nazis” running the country. He goes on to argue his victims are to blame for the events, and believed it was being twisted by a “corrupt” media.
The parole hearings comes as Dan Nichols — paroled in 1991 from his kidnapping and assault sentence received for his role in the infamous crime — is in trouble with the law again.
Jefferson County officials issued an arrest warrant last month for the younger Nichols after he failed to show up for a pretrial hearing in a drug case.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...es-victims/2012/04/14/gIQABtQbHT_story_1.html
Remind anyone else of a JPP poster?