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Posted: May 21 2009 at 12:00pm | IP Logged Quote Mary G

I just had to mention this movie that we just watched today ... The Santa Fe Trail (a classic b/w with Erroll Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Olivia deHaviland, Ray Milland, etc) ... is a FANTASTIC living story about the 1854 graduating class of WestPoint (Jeb Stuart, George Custer and others were in the same class and Jefferson Davis gave the commencement speech, while Robert E. Lee was the commandante!), their being sent to Kansas to keep the peace after the signing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and all the antics of John Brown, who gets progressively more fanatical as the movie reaches its climax. This is a GREAT resource for learning about this time -- how some people with really good intentions went too far in their abolitionist activities as well as how tough it would have been for these guys to fight each other during the Civil War.

Oh, and btw, the link will take you to Amazon where this dvd is only 3.99 ... can't beat that!

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