Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I koperea te kiriata i runga i te waahi i Monument Valley ma te whakamahi i nga waahanga nui o te rahui Navajo i te rohe o Arizona-Utah. Ko Ford me te kaiwhakaahua kiriata a Winton C. Hoch i hanga i te nuinga o nga whakaahua o te kiriata i runga i nga peita me nga whakairo o Frederic Remington. I riro i a Hoch te Tohu Academy mō te Whakaahua Ataahua Pai rawa, Tae i roto i
Ko te tau 1950. I whakaingoatia ano hoki hei 1950's Best Written American Western (i whakawhiwhia e te Writers Guild of America ki a "Yellow Sky").