Thanks for mentioning “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”. In my opinion, the best of the “John Ford Stock Company” pictures, and the one I will watch over and over. I’ve tried to locate a short story by James Warner Bellah which apparently contributed to the script. I read somewhere that “Mr Cohill” was “Flintridge Cohill” in the original story,but I never heard that mentioned in the movie. And the funeral of “Trooper Smith” , ex-Confederate General Rome Clay - - Bellah was a genius with names!
I have severral of Bellah books. There are old and I;ve had to glue them back together, but they sit on my favorite shelf!