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It's a cinematic image as familiar as John Wayne's face: a wagon train circling as a defensive maneuver against Indian attacks. This book examines actual and fictional wagon-train battles and compares them for realism. It also describes how fledgling Hollywood portrayed the concept of westward migration but, as the evolving industry became more accurate in historical detail, how filmmakers then lost sight of the big picture.
List of contents
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Utter-Van Ornum Wagon Train
2. The Bent and Towne-Tevis Wagon Trains
3. The Horn-Harris Wagon Train (
The Searchers,
Ulzana's Raid)
4. The Webster Wagon Train (
In the Days of the Pilgrims,
The Missing)
5. The Wilson Wagon Train (
The Comancheros,
Comanche Station)
6. The Oatman Wagon Train (
The Unforgiven,
Sioux Blood,
White Comanche)
7. The Ward-Masterson Wagon Train (
Soldier Blue,
Rio Grande)
8. The Fancher-Baker Wagon Train (
The Last Wagon,
Dawn on the Great Divide)
9. The Shepherd and Miltimore Wagon Trains (
Fighting Caravans,
The Painted Stallion)
10. The Box Wagon (
The Unforgiven)
11 The Rose-Baley Wagon Train
12. The Sager Wagons (
Seven Alone)
13. The Morton-Marble Wagon Train (
The Forest Rose,
The Half Breed,
Two Rode Together)
14. Anna Brewster Morgan (
Stolen Women,
Captured Hearts)
15. The Fletcher Wagon Train (
Duel at Diablo,
Fort Apache,
Ulzana's Raid)
16. The Smart and Adams Wagon Trains
17. The Townsend Wagon Train (
The Big Trail)
18. The Kelly-Larimer Wagon Train
19. The Fisk Wagon Train (
Kentucky Rifle)
20. The Ake-Wadsworth Wagon Train (
The Outriders,
How the West Was Won)
21. The Blinn-Buttles Wagon Train (
Little Big Man,
The Searchers)
22. The Templeton, Kirkendall, and Floyd Wagon Trains (
Red River)
23. The Hayden, Crow, Blanchard, Snyder, and Baca Wagon Trains (
Two Mules for Sister Sara)
24. The Cooke and Custard Wagon Trains (
The Massacre,
Chuka)
25. The Lyman Wagon Train and Beecher Island (
The Plainsman,
The Oregon Trail)
26. The Lyons, Shurly, Reel, and Hartz Wagon Trains (
Apache Rifles,
Rio Grande,
Broken Arrow,
Hondo)
27. The Sawyers Wagon Train (
Wagon Tracks)
28. The Burrell-Foster Wagon Train (
The Red Raiders,
Westward Ho the Wagons)
29. The German Wagon Train (
Rio Grande,
Lonesome Dove,
Last Train from Gun Hill)
30. Trail Deaths (
The Covered Wagon,
The Big Trail,
Westward the Women,
How the West Was Won)
31. Stagecoach Attacks (
Stagecoach)
32. The Elm Creek Raid (
The Searchers)
33. Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving (
Lonesome Dove)
34.
How the West Was Won and
Into the West 35. Riding into the Sunset
Appendix A: The Wagon Train Movies Appendix B: Wagon Trains Referenced in This Study Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
About the author
Historian Gregory F. Michno is the author of numerous books about such topics as the American West and World War II. He lives in Frederick, Colorado.Susan J. Michno has written articles on the Spirit Lake Massacre and the Box Family of Texas. She lives in Frederick, Colorado.
