Circle the Wagons!:
Attacks on Wagon Trains in History and Hollywood Films
Authors: Gregory F. Michno and Susan J. Michno
McFarland Publisher, 2009

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From the Publiser:
It's a cinematic image as familiar as John Wayne's face: a wagon train circling as a defensive maneuver against Indian attacks. This book examines actual and fictional wagon-train battles and compares them for realism. It also describes how fledging Hollywood portrayed the concept of westward migration but, as the evolving industry became more accurate in historical detail, how filmmakers then lost sight of the big picture.

About the Author:
Historian Gregory F. Michno is the author of numerous books about such topics as the American West and World War II.

Susan J. Michno has written articles on the Spirit Lake Massacre and the Box Family of Texas. They both currently live in Longmont, Colorado.