Cowboys Vs. Indians!

I did a lot of research when hoping to write a book called How the West Wasn't Won about the Indian wars in the movies.

So I can say that there are hundreds of movies involving Indian Wars in the West as major or minor plot elements.

Tens of great movies, hundreds of good movies, and hundreds of bad movies.

I have seen a variety review quoted which stated that Indian movies were getting very overused. The review was from 1909.

This website has a list of 68 "good" movies about Indians, most involving some military strife: http://www.jacknilan.com/nativeamerican/

this one has some more, with fewer "cowboys and Iindians" examples: westernshttp://ladyhawkesite.tripod.com/nativemovies.htm

Here is another list which is too short: http://allaboutwarmovies.com/2010/11/27/movies-on-american-indian-wars-a-list-part-ii/

Here is another list: http://www.powwows.com/gathering/archive/index.php?t-49494.html

Here is a list of cavalry films: http://www.alibris.com/search/movies/genre/Cavalry%20Film

And another short list of cavalry films: http://545thmpassn.comCavalry_Movies.htm

And another short one: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=The%20US%20Cavalry&rh=n%3A2625373011%2Ck%3AThe%20US%20Cavalry&page=1#/ref=sr_pg_1?rh=n%3A2625373011%2Ck%3AThe+US+Cavalry&keywords=The+US+Cavalry&ie=UTF8&qid=1339129132

and another: http://www.watchfreemovies.ch/watch-movies/watch-u-s-cavalry-movies-online/page-2/

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Land Raiders (1969).

With Telly Savalas and George Maharis. A very underrated film in my mind. Watched it for the first time when I was 8 or 9 years old, and it´s been one of my favorite westerns ever since.

Yeah, I saw "Land Raiders" a couple of years ago and was surprised at how good it was for such an obscure Western. It's definitely underrated.

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