The Searchers Family Review

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.After a long three-year absence, the battle-scarred Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, Ethan Edwards turns up on the remote and dusty Texan homestead of his brother, Aaron. In high hopes of finding peace, instead, the taciturn former soldier will embark on a treacherous five-year odyssey of retribution, when the ruthless Chief Scar's murderous Comanche raiding party massacres his family, burns the ranch to the ground, and abducts his nine-year-old niece, Debbie. Driven by hatred of Indians, Ethan and his young companion, Martin Pawley, ride through the unforgiving desert to track down their lost Debbie; however, is the woman they lost and the prisoner in Scar's teepee still the same woman the searchers seek?—Nick RiganasTo that of his brother Aaron and his immediate family, Ethan Edwards has finally returned "home" to west Texas, three years after the end of the Civil War, the reason for his initial absence. Where he has been in the intervening time is unspoken, indication, from his newly pressed gold coins and a medal, being that he has been a soldier of fortune fighting in Mexico. When cattle have been poached from the neighboring Jorgensen ranch, Captain Samuel Clayton of the Texas Rangers, he also the area ordained preacher, leads a band of deputized men for the sole purpose of locating and bringing to justice the perpetrators, Ethan who accompanies them, however unwilling to be deputized in his continuing allegiance to the Confederacy. It isn't until it is too late that they come to the realization that the poaching was a ploy by the Comanches to lure the men away, the true targets being human ones at either the Jorgensen and/or Edwards ranches in retaliation. They return to find that the entire Edwards family and the home has been wiped out, with the indication that Aaron and his wife Martha's two daughters, teenage Lucy and adolescent Debbie, have been abducted. Out of circumstance, Ethan is in it for the long haul to locate his two nieces, the only other person in that same position, much to Ethan's chagrin, being Martin Pawley, who Aaron and Martha long ago unofficially adopted and whose position Ethan does not like not only in not truly being a blood relation but acting as if he is so, but being one-eighth native (Cherokee), people that Ethan abhors, especially the Comanches. In Ethan and Martin's absence, their primary touchstone to home are the Jorgensens, especially for Martin in he and the Jorgensens' daughter, Laurie, long having been in love, with their differences in how they express or don't express that love jeopardizing their relationship. The longer it takes for Ethan and Martin to locate Lucy and Debbie, the more their mission may diverge in Ethan prioritizing between his commitment to blood, and his hatred for the Comanches, who he would like to decimate.—HuggoEthan Edwards, returned from the Civil War to the Texas ranch of his brother, hopes to find a home with his family and to be near the woman he obviously but secretly loves. But a Comanche raid destroys these plans, and Ethan sets out, along with his 1/8 Indian nephew Martin, on a years-long journey to find the niece kidnapped by the Indians under Chief Scar. But as the quest goes on, Martin begins to realize that his uncle's hatred for the Indians is beginning to spill over to include his now-assimilated niece. Martin becomes uncertain whether Ethan plans to rescue Debbie...or kill her.—Jim Beaver <[email protected]>Ethan Edwards, an ex-Confederate soldier from the Indian Wars, finds that his family has been massacred and his niece captured by the Comanches and vows to bring her back and kill every one of the Indians who did this. He travels for five years in order to find her, and when he does realizes even though she has been found, she has become one of them.—Christopher D. Ryan <[email protected]>1 moreAll