Sixty years ago, John Ford and his film company left Hollywood for Goulding’s Lodge and Monument Valley to make The Searchers, a film that many consider the greatest Western film of all time. While many other directors in the 1940s and 1950s were pushing the envelope on new locations, themes, social issues and violence, including Budd Boetticher, Henry Hathaway and Anthony Mann, Ford with his leading man John Wayne, changed Westerns going forward with his the adaptation of the Alan LeMay’s n
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