November 18, 2016
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
Park Rangers at nearby Washita Battlefield National Historic Site will be discussing the differences between historical events and the Hollywood version.
Chief of Interpretation at the battlefield, Kevin Bowles-Mohr says many times, Hollywood will take an event and change it. Sunday, he says, they’ll show a movie at the park and then discuss what really happened.
Bowles-Mohr says the first movie installment for the afternoon matinee will be about a bounty hunter (Tom Berenger) hired to find escaped inmates hiding in the Rockies. Discovering a strange arrow on his search, Berenger involves an expert in Native American culture (Barbara Hershey) and together, they stumble upon a forgotten tribe from the days of the western frontier.
Instead of a manhunt for escapees, Bowles-Mohr says it then becomes an attempt to protect what might be the last of the Dog Soldiers of the Cheyenne Indians from the 20th century.
He encourages those that to hear the real story along with a discussion about the truths and the artistic license of Hollywood films in relation to Native Americans to head out to the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site located just west of Cheyenne, Oklahoma on Highway 47 A for the 2 pm movie on Sunday.
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