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The searchers : the making of an American legend
Title:
The searchers : the making of an American legend
Author:
Frankel, Glenn.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury USA, [2013]

©2013
Physical Description:
405 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
Glenn Frankel, beginning in Hollywood and then returning to the origins of the Cynthia Ann Parker Indian captivity story, creates a rich and nuanced anatomy of a timeless film and a quintessentially American myth that bares the ambiguities surrounding race, sexuality, and violence in the settling of the West and the making of America.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction: Pappy (Hollywood, 1954) -- Cynthia Ann. The girl (Parker's Fort, 1836) -- The captives (Comancheria, 1836) -- The uncle (Texas, 1837-1852) -- The rescue (Pease River, 1860) -- The prisoner (Texas, 1861-1871) -- Quanah. The warrior (Comancheria, 1865-1871) -- The surrender (Comancheria, 1874-1875) -- The go-between (Fort Sill, 1875-1886) -- The chief (Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1887-1892) -- Mother and son (Cache, Oklahoma, 1892-1911) -- The legend (Oklahoma and Texas, 1911-1952) -- Alan Lemay. The author (Hollywood, 1952) -- The novel (Pacific Palisades, California, 1953) -- Pappy and the Duke. The director (Hollywood, 1954) -- The actor (Hollywood, 1954) -- The production (Hollywood, 1955) -- The Valley, Part One (Monument Valley, June, 1955) -- The Valley, Part Two (Monument Valley, June-July, 1955) -- The studio (Hollywood, July-August, 1955) -- The movie (Hollywood, 1956) -- The legacy (Hollywood, 1956-2010) -- Epilogue: Quanah (Texas, June, 2011).
ISBN:
9781608191055
Format :
Book