In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.


Books with substantial mentioning of Major Dundee

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Mike Siegel
Passion & poetry, Sam Peckinpah in Pictures
Berlin, 2003

Jeff Rovin
The Films of Charlton Heston
Secaucus, N.J., 1977

Books with an entry on Major Dundee

Herb Fagen
The encyclopedia of westerns
New York, 2003

Articles on Major Dundee

Richard Combs, Shall We Gather, in: Filmcomment, nr. 3 (May/June), 2005 pp. 20-21