This guy came in on the same wagon train as the Donner Party, splitting off the month before they made their fatal decision to turn back. He worked at Sutter’s Fort for a time, just prior to the discovery of gold there. He spoke all five dialects of the native tribes of the Tularenos, fluently, No other white man has ever been integrated into Native American Culture to that extent, Jack Crabb – Little Big Man – was a fictitious character. He used racist tactics, well known by then, from Cortez onward – to subdue the natives, use shock and awe. In Savage’s case, he pulled no punches. His first was to ignite a barrel of gunpowder and time it with some voodoo, so that he appeared from a flash of blinding light and gave him his name – The Blonde King. He then procured a galvanic battery from San Francisco, capable of administering a jolt, and concealed it in the skin of a Grizzly bear. The Grizzly was revered by all native people, for good reason, and Savage exploited this reverence unashamedly, by wearing the skin and reaching his hand out to the guests he invited into his wigwam.