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Zulu logistics accounted for that. The guys out front were about as lightly equipped as possible.

Fifty miles in a day when you're only carrying a spear and light shield is doable. 24 miles is about 8 hours of walking and no problem for someone in good health. Fifty miles is 10 hours of jogging.

When a movie includes scalping it's typically a horror flick meant to shock the audience or set before 1900 in North America ... with the latter ones holding back on the gory details. Legends of the Fall and Inglorious Basterds are the only ones I can think of set after 1900 which include...

Legends of the Fall depicted that. Brad Pitt's character wasn't an American Indian. He played a white guy from Montana serving Canada who did go scapling Germans after his brother was killed. IIRC his character married the daughter of an American Indian who worked on his father's ranch.

The tribes on the west side of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest are pretty badass in their own way. Between the rivers and evergreen pine forests they were able to live a settled lifestyle without relying on agriculture and animal husbandry or having to fight much with each other. Some of...