America’s Endless Horizons

The first installment of Kevin Costner’s Western film series Horizon: An American Saga is an homage to America’s ceaseless drive and energy.  Before the Civil War, in the opening scene, settlers of men, women and children encamped on an Arizona river, amid an evening hoe down, are brutally attacked by young renegade Apaches.  The U.S. calvary arrives afterwards to take the survivors back to their fort.