Word: cavalrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Gay's cavalrymen smoked and gossiped in the steamy heat...
...first is technical accuracy. Cavalrymen did not wear dress uniforms into battle, as they do in "Buffalo Bill." Given the better part of Montana to fight in, they presumably did not pick a deep and narrow gulch, largely under water, while hordes of enterprising Sioux lay above poking out their rifles from behind many convenient rocks. An Indian is more apt to wear a battered fedora than a war bonnet. "Western Union's" Indians at least spoke Indian, or a reasonable facsimile of it, while "Buffalo Bill's" dog-warriors muttered monosyllables except for a chosen few who spoke fine...