Tribute to a Bad Man

Third and final western of James Cagney.

Though the setting is 1875 and Wyoming Rodock tells Steve that there are no Indians there any more. Considering that the biggest Indian war would take place the following year, the Great Sioux War (the Battles of Rosebud and Little Bighorn), that is a pretty incredible statement. In fact the cause of the war in 1876 was the establishment of the reservation in 1875 and the declaration that any Indian NOT on it by January 31, 1876 would be considered hostile and at war with the US. Therefore, the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho that went to war with the United States in 1876 did so because they were roaming free in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado in 1875, contrary to Rodock's view's.

And Introducing Irene Papas

Featured in Down on the Farm with James Cagney (1955)