tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post5529826443936858767..comments2023-10-05T10:19:06.886-05:00Comments on Blogonomicon: Santa Fe Trail, 1940AlanDPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00910363728370240226noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-69419211817699589382008-12-08T15:34:00.000-06:002008-12-08T15:34:00.000-06:00Mr. O'Connor: Thank you for the comment and that ...Mr. O'Connor: Thank you for the comment and that additional information.AlanDPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00910363728370240226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-92008024994139147262008-12-08T10:13:00.000-06:002008-12-08T10:13:00.000-06:00As a person who has studied and written about John...As a person who has studied and written about John Brown and teach a class on John Brown, I actually use the movie "Santa Fe Trail" and ask students to pick out the historically inaccurate information. For instance, his son Frederick, not Jason, was killed in Kansas. Robert E. Lee (who had a mustache but no beard and was not in uniform) came to Harpers Ferry on the train, not on horseback. The engine house in the movie is at the top of a big hill (though actually it was at the lowest point in town) -- a part they got right in the movie because in 1940 the engine house was at the top of the hill on the campus of Storer College. There are other errors, some of which have already been discussed. 2009 by the way is the 150th anniversary of the raid. Sixty plus events are planned. See www.johnbrownraid.org .<BR/>Bob O'Connor, author, "The Perfect Steel Trap Harpers Ferry 1859"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-41417430239236268092008-11-29T19:01:00.000-06:002008-11-29T19:01:00.000-06:00Louis: thanks for that information. I thought th...Louis: thanks for that information. I thought that someone involved with making this movie had to have an agenda, but I couldn't find any details like that online.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment.AlanDPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00910363728370240226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-15154318334703171882008-11-29T18:50:00.000-06:002008-11-29T18:50:00.000-06:00Good job on this one for sure. I'm a JB biographe...Good job on this one for sure. I'm a JB biographer. Santa Fe Trail is probably one of the worst contributors to the pop culture notion of Brown as a madman and criminal. The screenplay writer was from Virginia and believed that if people like Brown had not arisen, the Civil War could have been avoided. Your observations are very helpful. We've yet to have a decent portrayal of Brown in cinema. By the way, Malcolm X probably saw Santa Fe Trail as a teenager. He later said he saw a movie about Brown that made him look like a "nut."Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. . .https://www.blogger.com/profile/10895195726778019518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-16409710744739508342008-11-28T22:02:00.000-06:002008-11-28T22:02:00.000-06:00Oops. Fixed it.Oops. Fixed it.AlanDPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00910363728370240226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6232479.post-87251496116171332972008-11-28T21:11:00.000-06:002008-11-28T21:11:00.000-06:00Raymond Massey...and yes, I could never figure out...<I>Raymond</I> Massey...and yes, I could never figure out what the producers of that movie were thinking...<BR/><BR/>The community I live in was an abolitionist hub--I live less than a mile from the tannery house John Brown built and lived in for several years, and we have a street named after his father, Owen Brown, acknowledged as the Underground RR "stationmaster," and who is buried in an old cemetery here.David Codreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13836716551269849012noreply@blogger.com