#scalping yes gore and viscera yes because violence is violence and war is war but. hm

[frogsman]

“like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools”

ok the scene where the comanche attack is so cool.... 

#i THINK ! it's important to note that including the indians 'sodomizing' the corpses is historically inaccurate #scalping yes gore and viscera yes because violence is violence and war is war but. hm #it was much more an american thing to do these things to indian corpses - see the sand creek massacre #whatever i know too much indian history. the point here is that i can appreciate the idea of violence being universal ESPECIALLY in #the american west. however must tread carefully here as some of these fall victim to western stereotyping of The Savage