Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tiimata ano a Swarthout ki te hoko pakiwaitara poto ki nga whakaputanga a motu penei i te "Cosmopolitan" me te "The Saturday Evening Post". I utua ia $ 2500 i te tau 1955 mo tetahi o enei korero, "He hoiho mo Mrs. Custer", i riro hei Randolph Scott iti-pauna Western mo Columbia Pictures i te 1956, i raro i te taitara "7th Cavalry". I te rā i muri i tana whakamātautau tohutoro whakamutunga, ka tīmata ia ki te tuhituhi i tētahi pukapuka e kīia ana ko "They Came To Cordura". I whakatūria ki Mēhiko i te tau 1916 i te wā o te
Ko te Pershing Expedition ki te hopu i a Pancho Villa, me etahi o ana hoia eke hoiho pakiwaitara i tohua mo nga Tohu Whakahonore. I hohoro te hoko o te pukapuka ki a Random House, katahi ka hokona ki a Columbia Pictures i te 1958, ka noho ko tetahi o a raatau pikitia nui e wheturangitia ana e Gary Cooper me Rita Hayworth i te tau i muri mai. Nā tēnei pukapuka "New York Times" me te moni kiriata i āhei ai a Swarthout ki te noho hei kaituhi ngaio. E 39 ōna tau.