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Cheyenne Autumn is a 1964 American epic Western film starring Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, and Edward G. Robinson. It tells the story of a factual event, the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878–79, told in "Hollywood style" using a great deal of artistic license.
Some observers link the autumn 1878 actions of the Cheyenne as being a response to an earlier Battle at Sappa Creek (also known as the Massacre at Cheyenne Hole), an action in the spring of 1875 in the same area when a small village of Cheyenne was surprised and destroyed by Army troops.
Argumento. En 1868, trescientos indios cheyennes vivían miserablemente, lejos de sus tierras, en una reserva de Oklahoma. Para sacarlos de la pobreza, sus jefes decidieron emprender un largo viaje hasta sus praderas natales. Pero la huida fue descubierta y la caballería salió en su persecución.
Movies. Cheyenne Autumn. The rueful, elegiac grandeur of John Ford’s final Western, from 1964, arises from a true story of a quasi-Biblical power, a sort of frontier Exodus that’s filmed with...
1 de ene. de 1992 · Mari Sandoz. 4.00. 348 ratings47 reviews. In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the US government, to return to their homeland in Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight.
Large-scale frontier epic telling the true story of a band of Cheyenne Indians who, starved nearly to extinction on an inhospitable reservation, embark on the long trek back to their distant...
Cheyenne Autumnis based on a true story from 1878 in which more than three hundred Northern Cheyenne escape from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency at Fort Reno, Oklahoma, to return to their home in the Yellowstone area. They are led by Chiefs Dull Knife and Little Wolf and guided by an elderly woman.