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John Ford and Harry Goulding

by | Mar 8, 2018 | True West Blog

Monument Valley from The Searchers
The year was 1938 and the Navajo were in the deep depths of the Great Depression.  Harry Goulding, proprietor of Goulding’s trading post on the Arizona-Utah border had an idea to help the economy by recruiting film makers to use the Monument Valley area as a location for filming their westerns.  Harry and his wife Mike (her name was really Leona but Harry claimed he couldn’t spell it so he re-nam


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