Richard J. August writes and testifies frequently on Second Amendment and other issues. He lives in North Kingstown.
In 1972, the excellent black and white Western “Ulzana’s Raid” was released to critical acclaim but not much box office interest. Burt Lancaster plays civilian tracker John McIntosh, who goes on patrol with a cavalry troop chasing a band of Chiricahua Apaches who left the reservation to go on a rampage. Lancaster regarded this movie as in the top two of his career.
The fierce, nomadic Comanches had driven the Chiricahua and other Apache tribes out of their territory in Texas into less desirable land in Arizona and New Mexico where they were placed on reservations by the U.S. Army. “Apache” is the Spanish transliteration of the Zuni word for “enemy.” “Comanche” is from the Ute word meaning “anyone who wants to fight me all the time,” and they were the one indigenous tribe that actually pushed the white Texans and Army out of their lands for
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