From the very beginning of European colonization of the New World, the Native American population has continually been dropping. Throughout the frontier history of the United States, the chief objective of the pioneering white race was to move the savages aside by any way necessary, in order to settle the vast landscape of the continent. It was not until the Indian population was almost entirely wiped out that American society took an interest in the phenomenon of the perishing native race. Going along with societal trends, renown Western novelist Zane Grey published a work focused on the doomed people. "The Vanishing American apart, none of Grey's novels were ever made into really important movies;" but, like other Zane adaptations, this 1925 Native American epic "retained the values of his story" (Everson 170). Remaining loyal to the author's ideals, The Vanishing American focuses on the plight of a vanquished tribe living...