westerns

MOVIES FILMED IN

1913 - 1979 1980 - 2017

Cache Box Elder Cache Rich Box Elder Rich

Weber Weber Morgan Davis Morgan Davis Summit Summit Salt Lake Salt Lake Tooele Tooele Wasatch Wasatch Duchesne Duchesne Uintah Uintah

Utah Utah Juab Carbon Juab Carbon

Sanpete Grand Sanpete Millard Millard Grand

Emery Emery Sevier Sevier

Beaver Beaver Piute Piute Wayne Wayne

Iron Iron Garfield Garfield San Juan San Juan

Washington Washington

Kane Kane

# of Movies # of Movies 1-3 4-9 10-18 19-38 1 2 3 4

The Covered Wagon, 1923 Geronimo: An American Legend, 1993 Of the era, this was the first Unlike past Westerns, this movie portrays the life of an Apache great epic to be filmed in Utah and and avoids stereotyping either side as bad or good. “We’re set the visual standard for Western movies. telling the story of Geronimo the fighting man. We’re not A herd of 500 buffalo on (the putting him on a pedestal and saying he never did anything largest herd at that time) helped create the hunt wrong,” said Wes Studi (Cherokee), actor who played Geronimo. scenes. Other scenes in Utah were filmed in Filmed in the Moab area. western Millard County.

The Searchers, 1956 Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy, 2006 One of 11 Westerns starring John Wayne Another departure from the Westerns of the past, this film filmed in Utah. In 1989, the United States continues the Butch Cassidy saga with younger actors (teenagers) National Film Registry selected the film for as the main characters. In this movie, they are searching for a lost preservation as one of 25 films considered treasure. Filmed in Circleville, Heber City, Provo and Kanab. “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” Filmed at Monument Valley and along the San Juan River in Mexican Hat.

SOURCES: Utah Film Commission; IMDb.com; James V. D’Arc. When Hollywood Came to Town. Layton: Gibbs Smith. 2010; Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center Coordinate System: NAD83 UTM Zone 12N Christina Epperson, January 2018