Production:

• Released 1955 by Paramount Pictures, color, mono sound, 108 mins.; re-released as Untamed West in 1962
• Directed by Rudolph Maté
• Written by Winston Miller and Edmund H. North and Della Gould Emmons from her novel Sacajawea of the Shoshones
• Produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas
• Original music by Hans J. Salter
• Cinematography by Daniel L. Fapp
• Film editing by Frank Bracht
• Art direction by A. Earl Hedrick and Hal Pereira
• Set decoration by Sam Comer and Otto Siegel
• Costume design by Edith Head
• Sound recording by Gene Garvin and Gene Merritt
• special photographic effects by John P. Fulton
• color consultant Richard Mueller
• technical advisor D.R.O. Hatswell

Cast:

• Fred MacMurray as Meriwether Lewis
• Charlton Heston as William Clark
• Donna Reed as Sacajawea
• Barbara Hale as Julia Hancock
• William Demarest as Sergeant Cass
• Alan Reed as Charboneau
• Edward Noriega as Cameahwait
• Larry Pennell as Wild Eagle
• Herbert Heyes as President Jefferson
• Lester Matthews as Mr. Hancock

Scenes:

1'13 - Lewis and Clark return to Jefferson in President's House 1807, with Sacajawea, and she explains that among Indians "a woman cooks for her man, works in the fields, has his baby. That is all."

Links:

• Credits from the IMDB for the title The Far Horizons
• Picture sources: Movie poster from Beam of Classics page on Donna Reed; color portraits of Lewis and Clark by C. W. Peale 1807 from NPS, map from New York Times Jan. 17, 2003
• Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail from NPS
• Lewis and Clark gNET from Peter Kiewit Institute at the University of Nebraska includes interactive map
• Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online from University of Nebraska
• Lewis and Clark Education Center from NASA at the University of Montana
• Discovering Lewis and Clark
• Fort Clatsop National Memorial from NPS
• History of Fort Leavenworth from CARL
• Yahoo index for Lewis and Clark Expedition