John Ford, who filmed westerns in the valley (the Mittens and Merrick Butte ... classic westerns as Stagecoach and The Searchers here. Thanks to Ford, Monument Valley is one of the most familiar ...

“So this is where God put the West” said John Wayne when he first saw the lunar expanse of Arizona’s Monument Valley; in the films that he ... about Wayne and Ford’s Monumental Western “The Searchers, ...