Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Swarthout malitekwara ire akụkọ mkpirikpi na akwụkwọ akụkọ mba dị ka "Cosmopolitan" na "The Saturday Evening Post". A kwụrụ ya $2500 na 1955 maka otu n'ime akụkọ ndị a, "A Horse for Mrs. Custer", nke ghọrọ Randolph Scott obere mmefu ego Western maka Columbia Pictures na 1956, n'okpuru aha "7th Cavalry". N'echi ya mgbe o dechara akwụkwọ ikpeazụ ọ ga-ede, ọ malitere ide akwụkwọ a na-akpọ "Ha Bịara na Cordura". Ebe ihe nkiri a mere bụ na Mexico n'afọ 1916 mgbe a na-alụ Agha Ụwa Mbụ.
Pershing Expedition iji jide Pancho Villa, na ụfọdụ n'ime ndị agha ịnyịnya agha ya e chepụtara echepụta ka a họpụtara maka Medals of Honor. E rere akwụkwọ ahụ ngwa ngwa na Random House na mgbe ahụ na Columbia Pictures na 1958, na-aghọ otu n'ime ihe nkiri ha na-eme ihe nkiri bụ Gary Cooper na Rita Hayworth otu afọ mgbe e mesịrị. Akwụkwọ a "NY Times" kacha ere na ego fim ahụ nyere Swarthout ohere ịghọ onye edemede ọkachamara n'ikpeazụ. Ọ dị afọ iri atọ na itoolu.