A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who's a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years.


Books with substantial mentioning of Rio Grande

Fred Landesman
The John Wayne Filmography
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2004

William Darby
John Ford's Westerns, A Thematic Analysis, with a Filmography
Jefferson, NC, 1996

Mark Ricci, Boris Zmijewsky, Steve Zmijewsky
The Complete Films of John Wayne
New York, NY, 1995

Tag Gallagher
John Ford: The Man and His Films
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1986

J.A. Place
The Western Films of John Ford
Secaucus, N.J., 1974

Books with an entry on Rio Grande

Herb Fagen
The encyclopedia of westerns
New York, 2003