The Searchers

  • The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western
    The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western
    By Peter Lehman, Arthur M. Eckstein

    Axtell , “ The White Indians . ” The American literary tradition of the " captivity narrative ” from which The Searchers derives : see Kolodny , “ Among the Indians . ” On the historical background of actual captivity in the Texas ...

  • The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
    The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
    By Glenn Frankel

    ... 139, 160–163, 186 Rose, Victor M., 63, 71, 72, 149–151 Ross, James, 14 Ross, Lawrence Sullivan “Sul,” 66–72, 148–150, ... 95, 97–99, 105, 106, 120 Sayre, Warren G., 157 Scheidler, Isaac, 117 Scheidler, Jacob, 117 Schickel, Richard, ...

  • The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
    The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
    By Glenn Frankel

    On Department of Interior letterhead, Quanah petitioned Texas governor Thomas Mitchell Campbell for his personal protection: “Dear Sir, Congress has set aside money for me to remove the body of my mother Cynthia Ann Parker and build a ...

  • The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt
    The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt
    By Joe Loconte

    Scholar Joseph Loconte examines one of the most remarkable passages of Scripture, an exchange in the gospel of Luke between two disciples of Jesus of Nazareth---uttered just days after his execution---about the longings of the human heart ...

  • The Searchers
    The Searchers
    By Edward Buscombe

    John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was voted the seventh greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's most recent poll of critics.

  • The Searchers
    The Searchers
    By Edward Buscombe

    'The Searchers', Sight and Sound, 26/2, Autumn, 1956. Anderson, Lindsay. About John Ford (London: Plexus, 1981). Bogdanovich, Peter. John Ford (London: Studio Vista, 1967). Byron, Stuart. '“The Searchers”: Cult Movie of the New ...

  • The Searchers: Collected Poetry
    The Searchers: Collected Poetry
    By Tomás Rivera

    Tomàs Rivera is the author of the now classic Chicano novel _ y no se lo tragÑ la tierra/_ and the earth did not devour him and the short story collection The Harvest.

  • The Searchers: Bonus Edition
    The Searchers: Bonus Edition
    By Alan Le May

    The story is loosely based on what happened to Cynthia Ann Parker, abducted by Comanches in Texas in 1836 when she was about 10 years old.

  • The Searchers
    The Searchers
    By Alan Le May

    A Comanche war party kidnaps two young girls from a Texas ranch after killing the rest of the inhabitants.

  • The Searchers
    The Searchers
    By Carmenica Diaz

    Almost a thriller, this is, in the end, a romantic story of redemption and of understanding self, life and love. (52, 343 words)

  • The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War
    The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War
    By Robert Sackville-West

    The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War

  • The Searchers
    By Le May Alan

    "" Le May Alan(Includes bonus pictures)

  • The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt
    The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt
    By Joseph Loconte

    To people who felt like outcasts and aliens, he showed the way home. And then, in one devastating night, all their hopes collapsed. This is where our story begins—in the valley of despair.

  • The Searchers
    The Searchers
    By Alan Le May

    Now, the novel that gave birth to the film returns to print--a timeless work of vivid, raw western fiction and a no-holds-barred portrait of the real American frontier.

  • The Searchers
    The Searchers
    By Edward Buscombe

    'The Searchers', Sight and Sound, 26/2, Autumn, 1956. Anderson, Lindsay. About John Ford (London: Plexus, 1981). Bogdanovich, Peter. John Ford (London: Studio Vista, 1967). Byron, Stuart. '“The Searchers”: Cult Movie of the New ...

  • The Searchers: And Their Endless Quest for Lost Aircrew in the Southwest Pacific
    The Searchers: And Their Endless Quest for Lost Aircrew in the Southwest Pacific
    By Jim Eames

    At war's end in the Pacific, the fate of a thousand missing Australian airmen hung in the balance. Headed by tenacious Squadron Leader Keith Rundle, the RAAF's search and recovery...

  • The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
    The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
    By Glenn Frankel

    Traces the making of the influential 1950s film inspired by the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, sharing details of Parker's 1836 abduction by the Comanche and her return to white culture twenty-four years later.

  • The Searchers
    The Searchers
    By Alan LeMay

    In this great American masterpiece, which served as the basis for the classic John Wayne film, two men with very different agendas push their endurance beyond all faith and hope to find a little girl captured by the Comanche.

  • The Searchers
    The Searchers
    By Kay David

    The truth is supposed to set you free… After the birth—and death—of her child, Maya fled her hometown and made a new life for herself.

  • The Searchers: Radio Intercept in Two World Wars
    The Searchers: Radio Intercept in Two World Wars
    By Kenneth Macksey

    The Searchers: Radio Intercept in Two World Wars