Across the Wildest Landscapes of "The Conquest of the West"

Infinity is the adjective that best defines the expanse of the South Dakota plains, in the westernmost part of the state, where the Sioux defeated Colonel George Armstrong Custer's cavalry, whose surname names Custer National Park. The memorable stampede of buffalo, provoked by disgruntled natives against the camp of white men building the railroad, was filmed in its territories, in a flowery landscape now trodden by American antelopes. The sequence was witnessed by the Black Hills, darkened by the color of the ponderosa pine masses frolicked by the wind, a symphony that delights the ears of travelers.

In the area that separates Kentucky and Indiana lies Louisville, the city where the Ohio River becomes a waterfall, a dramatic scene featuring the Prescott family as they navigate a raft towards the state of Ohio, in the Great Lakes region, a journey that begins in the Erie Canal, which can be traveled by boat. In California's Inyo County is the farm of the saga's protagonists, set in the idyllic landscapes of Lone Pine National Park.

The route of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States, one of the narrative fractions of the film, crosses the Rocky Mountain range and its highest point, Mount Albert, in the state of Colorado. It is one of the jewels featured in the film, while the iron tracks were hammered into the ground of the Great Divide Basin, faithfully recreated by the producers and the scene of fierce battles between whites and the Indian nation.

In one of the most notable reliefs on the planet, between Arizona and Utah, the cameras of the Cinerama system of The Conquest of the West also stop at Monument Valley, a wild place formed by natural orange sandstone monuments, the favorite image of the western that has been etched in the viewer's memory.