Across the Wide Missouri (film)

Across the Wide Missouri is a 1951 American Technicolor film based on historian Bernard DeVotos book, Across the Wide Missouri. The film dramatizes an account of several fur traders and their interaction with the Native Americans.

In the 1830s in the Rocky Mountains, fur trapper Flint Mitchell Clark Gable meets at the summer Rendezvous with other mountain men, cashing in his furs, drinking, and enjoying contests among his friends. He organizes a hunting brigade into the beaverrich Blackfoot territory, buying horses and recruiting trappers, despite protests from his Scottish friend and former trading partner, Brecan John Hodiak, who lives among the Blackfoot and warns him that the land belongs to them. Flint outbids Brecan for Kamiah Mara Elena Marqus, the granddaughter of Blackfoot medicine man Bear Ghost and adopted daughter of a Nez Perce chief, Looking Glass J. Carrol Naish. Brecan wants to return her to the Blackfoot, to promote peace between the tribes, while Flint wants to marry Kamiah and ensure the brigades safety.Pierre Adolphe Menjou, a French Canadian trapper, and Captain Humberstone Lyon Alan Napier, another Scotsman, who fought in the Battle of Waterloo, join Flint on the dangerous expedition. Kamiah successfully guides Flint and his men on their trek through the high passes filled with crippling snow drifts and delivers them to the Blackfoot territory, where they build a stockade. Flint narrowly escapes capture and death by Ironshirt Ricardo Montalban, a young Blackfoot prince and war chief, who kills Baptiste DuNord, one of Flints best trappers. Ironshirt steals the brigades horses, but Flint impresses Bear Ghost Jack Holt, who orders them returned. ........

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