Directed and narrated by Garry R. Hood, this documentary shares the stories of 10 Apache scouts awarded the Medal of Honor in 1875 for their role in the Salt River Cave Battle in Arizona, and of the 11th scout medal recipient, given a medal for helping to hunt down the Apache Kid in 1890. While honoring famous Apache leaders, such as Mangas Coloradas and Geronimo, the video reveals how and why sc
January/February 2011
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Apache: 1861-1880
- Red Cloud’s War
- From Cochise to Geronimo
- Cave Rock
- War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army
- The Killing of Crazy Horse
- Sitting Bull: Prisoner of War
- Myth, Memory and Massacre
- All of My People Were Killed
- Plains Indians Regalia & Customs
- Building One Fire: Art and World View in Cherokee Life
More In This Issue
- About how many cowboys came through a cattle town each season?
- What’s the story of the doc who killed gunfighter Dallas Stoudenmire?
- How did Tucson become such a lawless place before, during and after the Civil War?
- How successful were traveling salesmen in the Old West?
- Why wasn’t James Earp a major player in the Tombstone troubles in the early 1880s?
- What do you know about the photo of Billy the Kid in the Caldwell, Kansas, museum?
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2011
- True West’s Best of the West 2011 Winners
- There Will Be War!
- John Wayne’s Wild West
- 1972’s Junior Bonner
- Dances With Wolves: 20th Anniversary
- Red Hill
- Old and New Kids of True Grit
- Jeb Rosebrook
- Riding Toward the Chuck
- A Giant of a Gun
- Following the Trail of Quanah Parker
- Rescuing a State Park
- A Sweet Search for History
- Lead and Negligees for Breakfast?
- Frontier Headache
- Sweethearts of the Rodeo
- Religion Against Profit
- Cut the Tent, Unleash the War
- That Other Rooster Cogburn