Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Directors

John Ford

Cast

Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Sal Mineo, James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson

The story

In 1878, the surviving Cheyenne natives have migrated 1,500 miles (2,414 km) from their Yellowstone homeland. At her Oklahoma homestead, their plight is witnessed by Deborah Wright, a Quaker school teacher, who takes the Cheyenne children as her students. Their trek has been accompanied by a United States Army cavalry troop headed by Captain Thomas Archer, who is engaged to Deborah.

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