***If you’re going for historical accuracy concerning westerns, you might as well rip the whole lie about quickdraw gunfights,****
How true! I live the old westerns of the 1950s even though they are inacurate. I enjoy the Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea movies better than John Wayne.
I saw one western not long ago in which Indians who were always friends with the US were on the warpath with the US. They even named the tribes! Poncas, Pawnees, Otoes, all joining their traditional enemies to fight the US. I couldn’t believe the inacuracies but it was still a fun movie!
Everybody knows about the John Ford westerns made in Monument Valley with the cavalry fighting the nasty Navajos or other Indians and protecting all the settlers. In reality, the Navajos were one of the tribes that didn’t fight the army. And there were few to no settlers, or Indians for that matter, in Monument Valley anyway (I’ve driven through it a number of times), because IT’S A DESERT!!! for crying out loud. No good for farming unless you wanted to grow sagebrush or cactus. Ford loved the backdrops...that’s why he made so many movies there.