Circle the Wagons!
Auteur: Gregory F. Michno, Susan J. Michno
Nombre de pages: 246 pages
ISBN: 0786439971, 9780786439973
Edition: McFarland
Date de publication: McFarland
Description: 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.