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Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah
Monument Valley has been featured many times in classic western movies, especially those starring John Wayne and directed by John Ford. Ford loved the beautiful scenery of Monument Valley and perhaps more than anyone helped put it on the tourist map. The valley floor is not that large — around a half dozen square miles — but it’s been filmed from so many angles you’ve likely come to think of it as being representative of the entire American West.
You’ll have seen Monument Valley in the movie Stagecoach, this photo including the Three Sisters rock formation….
Stagecoach, 1939, with the Three Sisters formation.
And in the classic film, The Searchers…..
The Searchers, 1956
Henry Fonda’s “My Darling Clementine” (a screening of which my father-in-law told me was the first date he and my …
Tagged erosion, geology, John Wayne, Monument Valley, movies
“Pic of the Week”, February 20, 2015: Monument Valley, Utah
The dramatic eroded landscapes of Monument Valley have been immortalized — largely because of John Wayne. You read that correctly, actor John Wayne. It was in this valley that director John Ford filmed the young movie star in a series of Westerns, the drama and action framed against Monument Valley, scenes that for many people around the world defined what the American West was like.
Monument Valley is fairly high altitude, around a mile above sea level (1500-1800 m). It’s landscapes are characterized by colorful sandstone buttes, banded and eroded. Monument Valley is close to the Four Corners region and is a park within the Navajo Nation.
I’ve only been to Monument Valley once, and that was on a gray drizzly day. …
Feb 19, 2015
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