I was in Taos, New Mexico, in May 2010 lecturing on Davy Crockett when executive producer Denis Stewart tracked me down.
Stewart, an old pro who had cut his teeth in the film business working on the Grizzly Adams shows in the waning days of the Western, needed a historical consultant for the DreamWorks/Imagine production of Cowboys & Aliens about to begin shooting near Santa Fe. I had performed the same role for Ron Howard’s 2003 film The Missing, and Howard was a producer on Cowboys &
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