Only a Navajo ... 43-year-old John Ford and a producer, Walter Wanger. Goulding left Los Angeles with a check for $5,000 and orders to accommodate a crew while it filmed in Monument Valley.

Located on the border of Utah and Arizona, 285 mi/460 km southeast of Salt Lake City, the stark landscape of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is what most of us imagine the West to look like—gr ...