For all Glenn Ford Fans, this is a must see, his great horsemanship is legendary, playing a man living by his own code of ethics in a day when greed over land, oil, and money transformed the American West into a industrialized and mechanized part of this country. This is what killed the cowboy, the Indian, and the farmer towards the end of the 19th century. Glen Ford should have got the Oscar for his performance, as well as an Oscar for Maria Schell who played his wife. The portrayal of the Oklahoma Indians is subdued at best, every time it surfaced in the film it was pushed to the side and made sublime, like we should already know their plight...however the leading character Yancy, was a champion for their causes, education, land struggles, and civil rights...the screenplay just leaves that part hanging and sporadically tosses in small talk concerning the Indians leaving any understanding up to the viewers own research.... Being a movie over 90 minutes I understand why this was not covered, it would take a whole other film to cover it, and another time... another time
