"The Searchers" is on again. I think it's going to be running a lot this month.

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9. Glenn Frankel, who has written several books about movies did "The Searchers"

"The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend" plumbs the story behind the movie: "In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity."

I preferred Frankel's book on the movie "High Noon," but he really goes deep on how Cynthia Ann Parker's story affected its time, and its influence continued for decades.