The Searchers (64 page)

A pivotal article:
Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington, “Prisoner of the Desert,”
Sight and Sound
, Autumn 1971.

“I wanted to be Scar”:
From
The Searchers: An Appreciation
(documentary).

“So you wanna be a picture maker”:
By John Ford
(documentary).

“He was a great artist”:
A Turning of the Earth
(documentary).

As executive producer of
Cowboys & Aliens
:
Rick Marshall,
“Cowboys & Aliens
' Co-Writer Says Flick's ‘Originality' Sets It Apart,” April 27, 2011.

“Ford's in my mind”:
“War Horse
and the Influence of John Ford on Steven Spielberg,” November 27, 2011.

“an unholy alliance of critics”:
Byron, p. 45.

“a spoiled masterpiece”:
Richard Schickel, “The Man Who Shot the West,”
NYT Book Review
, January 9, 2000.

“a peculiarly formal and stilted movie”:
Pauline Kael,
5,001 Nights at the Movies
, p. 662.

“The pressure of the film”:
Jonathan Lethem, “Defending
The Searchers
,”
Tin House
, Winter 2001.

“His persona gathers in one place”:
Lethem, “The Darkest Side of John Wayne,”
Salon
, July 1997.

“preposterous in its plotting”:
Stephen Metcalf, “The Worst Best Movie,”
Slate
, July 6, 2006.

“Writers are forgotten people”:
Gary Arnold, “Hero's Welcome for
The Searchers
,”
Washington Post
, September 23, 1979.

feminist social critic Susan Faludi:
See
The Terror Dream
, 2007.

“We worked together”:
Author's interview with James D'Arc.

“I've had people searching”:
Author's interview with Leith Adams, June 23, 2009.

The fierce Texas sun was incinerating:
The author attended Quanah Parker Reunion on the one hundredth anniversary of QP's death.

“May the Great Sprit smile”:
Recorded on a monument outside Quanah's City Hall.

Wayne took visitors for a drive:
Author's interview with Wayne Gipson, June 10, 2011.

“I don't believe in restoring”:
Herbert Woesner remarks, Parker Reunion, June 23, 2000.

“For us it's a sacred place”:
Author's interview with Ron Parker, June 13, 2008.

“They say there was no jealousy”:
Ardith Parker Leming tour, June 12, 2009.

“In the event these temporary measures”:
“Structural Stabilization Report: Star House,” no author or date.

“Lots of people had wanted to buy it”:
Author's interview with Kathy Gipson Treadwell.

“There are people showing up”:
Gipson interview.

“I know there are a lot of missing pieces”:
Author's interview with Dorothy Poole, July 9, 2008.

“We are shape shifters”:
Paul Chaat Smith,
Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong,
p. 58.

Archives and Collections

Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley

Baylor University, Waco, TX

Sul Ross Family Papers

Copper Breaks State Park, Quanah, TX

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

University of Texas at Austin

B. F. Gholson Papers

John Henry Brown Papers

Daniel Parker Papers

Joseph and Araminta Taulman Papers

Fort Sill Archives and Museum, Lawton, OK

Handbook of Texas Online.
www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/

Hardeman County Historical Museum, Quanah, TX

Hutchinson County Historical Museum, Borger, TX

Log Cabin Village, Fort Worth, TX

Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, OK

National Archives—Southwest Region, Fort Worth, TX

Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City (OKHS)

Chronicles of Oklahoma
:
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/
Kiowa Agency files

Old Fort Parker Historical Site, Groesbeck, TX

Palo Duro Canyon State Park Visitor's Center

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, TX (PPHM)

Bill Neeley Papers

Pilgrim Predestinarian Regular Baptist Church, Elkhart, TX

Southern Methodist University (SMU) DeGolyer Library, Dallas

James T. DeShields Papers

Star of the Republic Museum Archive, Washington, TX

Texas State Library (online)

University of Oklahoma Library, Norman, OK (OKU)

Western History Collection

Works Progress Administration Files

Van Zandt County Library of Genealogy and Local History, Canton, TX

Books

Anderson, Gary.
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. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.

Babb, T. A.
In the Bosom of the Comanches
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Baker, T. Lindsay, and Billy R. Harrison.
Adobe Walls, the History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post.
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986.

Benner, Judith Ann.
Sul Ross: Soldier, Statesman, Educator
. College Station: Texas A&M University, 1983.

Berlandier, Jean Louis.
The Indians of Texas in 1830
. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969.

Betty, Gerald.
Comanche Society: Before the Reservation
. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

Brashear, Charles.
Killing Cynthia Ann.
Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1999.

Brinkley, Douglas.
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
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Brooks, James F.
Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Brown, John Henry.
Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas
. Austin: L.E. Daniell, 1890. Reprinted by Austin: State House Press, 1988 (originally published 1880).

Brown, Marion T.
Letters from Fort Sill, 1886–1887
. C. Richard King, ed. Austin: Encino Press, 1970.

Brownmiller, Susan.
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975.

Carter, Robert G.
On the Border with Mackenzie
. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2007 (originally published 1935).

———.
Tragedies of Cañón Blanco
. Hobson Brothers, 1919.

Comanche Ethnography: Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie.
Thomas W. Kavanagh, ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 1824–1977
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Demos, John.
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
. New York: Knopf, 1994.

DeShields, James T.
Border Wars of Texas
. Tioga, Texas: Herald, 1912.

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Cynthia Ann Parker: The Story of Her Capture
. St. Louis: Printed for the Author, 1886.

Dixon, Olive K.
The Life of Billy Dixon
. Austin: State House Press, 1987.

Dodge, Richard Irving.
Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the West.
Hartford: A. D. Worthington, 1882.

Dunn, J. P.
Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West, 1815–1875.
New York: Archer House, 1958.

Ebersole, Gary L.
Captured by Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian Captivity
. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.

Egan, Timothy.
The Worst Hard Time
. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Epps, Garrett.
To an Unknown God: Religious Freedom on Trial
. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Exley, Jo Ella Powell.
Frontier Blood: The Saga of the Parker Family
. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001.

Fehrenbach, T. R.
Comanches: The Destruction of a People.
New York: Knopf, 1974.

———
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
. Boulder, Colo.: Da Capo Press, 2000 (originally published 1968).

Foreman, Grant.
Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest
. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1926.

Gilles, Albert S., Sr.
Comanche Days
. Dallas: SMU Press, 1974.

Gwynne, S. C.
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches.
New York: Scribner, 2010.

Hacker, Margaret S.
Cynthia Ann Parker: The Life and the Legend
. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1990.

Hagan, William T.
Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.

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Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

———
Taking Indian Lands: The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889–1893
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

———
Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indian.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

———
United States–Comanche Relations
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.

Haley, J. Evetts.
Charles Goodnight: Cowman & Plainsman
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949.

Hämäläinen, Pekka.
The Comanche Empire
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Hirshson, Stanley P.
The White Tecumseh: A Biography of General William T. Sherman.
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1998.

Honig, Lawrence E.
John Henry Brown: Texas Journalist. Southwestern Studies
Monograph No. 36, El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1973.

Houston, Sam.
The Writings of Sam Houston, Vol. IV, 1821–1847
. Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, eds. Austin: University of Texas, 1941.

Hunter, J. Marvin.
The Boy Captives
. Bandera, Texas: Frontier Times, 1927 (reprinted by New York: Garland, 1977).

The Indian Captivity Narrative: A Woman's View
. Frances Roe Kessler, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990.

Indian Oratory: Famous Speeches by Noted Indian Chieftains
. W. C. Vanderwerth, ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1971.

Irving, Washington.
A Tour on the Prairies
. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1956.

Jackson, Grace.
Cynthia Ann Parker
. San Antonio: Naylor, 1959.

Jiles, Paulette.
The Color of Lightning
. New York: William Morrow, 2009.

Kavanagh, Thomas W.
Comanches: A History
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

La Vere, David.
Life Among the Texas Indians: The WPA Narratives
. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.

Lee, Nelson.
Three Years Among the Comanches: The Narrative of Nelson Lee The Texas Ranger.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957.

Lehmann, Herman.
Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870–9
. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1927.

Marcy, Randolph B.
Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the Year 1852
. Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1854.

———
Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border
. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866.

Marszalek, John F.
Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order.
New York: Free Press, 1993.

Maverick, Mary A.
Memoirs.
San Antonio: Alamo Printing, 1921.

Meyer, Marian.
Mary Donoho: New First Lady of the Santa Fe Trail
. Santa Fe: Ancient City Press, 1991.

Michino, Gregory and Susan.
A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captives in the West, 1830–1885.
Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Press, 2007.

Mooney, James,
The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991 (original edition 1896).

Namias, June.
White Captives: Gender and Equality on the American Frontier
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Neeley, Bill.
The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker
. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.

Noyes, Stanley and Daniel J. Gelo.
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. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.

Nye, W. S.
Carbine and Lance
. Norman: University Oklahoma Press, 1937.

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XIV. Malcolm D. McLean, ed. Arlington: UTA Press, 1988.

Parker, James W.
Narrative of the Perilous Adventures, Miraculous Escapes and Sufferings of Rev. James W. Parker, to Which Is Appended a Narrative of the Capture and Subsequent Sufferings of Mrs. Rachel Plummer
. Louisville: Morning Courier Office, 1844.

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. Transcribed and compiled by Percy Wayne Shelton. Edited by Shelly Morrison. Austin: S and R Morrison, 1994.

Pierce, Michael D.
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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Plummer, Rachel.
Narrative of the Capture and Subsequent Sufferings of Mrs. Rachel Plummer
. Houston, 1839, 2nd edition.