Don’t get me started on the outrageous injustices done to the Chiricahua Apaches by the Federal bureaucracy, Congress and the U.S. Army after Geronimo surrendered.
The best Western for my money is The Searchers. The 1956 John Ford film is, I think, an insightful portrayal of the courage and price paid by settlers with nerves of steel trying to survive and make a place for thems

True West November 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- Wyatt’s Stallion, the Apache Kid and the Code of the West
- Ask The Marshall
- Geronimo Steals the Show
- If the State Won’t Do It
- Santa Fe Art Pilgrimage
- Ask the Marshall
- Ask the Marshall
- Ask the Marshall
- Ask the Marshall
- Ask the Marshall
- Prescott, Arizona
- Western Roundup
- Pioneers and Their Pies
- Alaska at 60
- An Officer and a Gentleman
- Bullets, Bread & Bad Behavior
- Ask the Marshall
- What History Has Taught Me: W. Michael Farmer, Author