After the war, David Hunter Strother used Averell's official report and worked with him to rewrite Averell's first mission in the war: traveling under top secret orders to Fort Smith, hence to Fort Arbuckle in Indian Territory to give instructions to the commander to abandon the fort and take men and supplies to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.
The story gives us a vivid portrait of those chaotic days leading into the brutal war.
The film runs 109 minutes .
The story gives us a vivid portrait of those chaotic days leading into the brutal war.
The film runs 109 minutes .