Cheyenne Autumn Trail
Structured as a complementary social and historical companion piece to John Ford's final western Cheyenne Autumn (1964), this documentary short intersperses clips from the big-screen epic with background information about the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878–1879 and contrasts it with life on the Cheyenne reservation in 1964, as a tribal chief, a tribal beauty queen, and a tribal adolescent take a drive along the route of the 19th-century trek.
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Cheyenne Autumn Trail
- Overview
- Cast
- Crew
Status
Released
Release Date
Jan 1, 1964
Runtime
0h 19m
Genres
Documentary
Original Title
Cheyenne Autumn Trail
Production Companies
Professional Filme Services
Director
Ronald Saland
Description
Structured as a complementary social and historical companion piece to John Ford's final western Cheyenne Autumn (1964), this documentary short intersperses clips from the big-screen epic with background information about the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878–1879 and contrasts it with life on the Cheyenne reservation in 1964, as a tribal chief, a tribal beauty queen, and a tribal adolescent take a drive along the route of the 19th-century trek.
