The first time I saw Monument Valley was in the movie Stagecoach, John Wayne's first major movie. The director, John Ford, used the same location for many more western movies. In fact, so many movies have been made there, film critic Keith Phipps said that " its five square miles have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West." The old fellow who took our entrance fee as we went into the Monument Valley Tribal Park warned us. He said the road through the park was unimproved, had no gas, no bathrooms, no water, and was extremely rough in places. We thought, of course, that he thought we were weaklings and wasn't aware of our experience . We should have listened to him. Immediately, when we opened our car doors in the parking lot, we were hit with 40-50 mph wind gusts loaded with sand. It felt like hundreds of tiny needles hitting us. We ran to the visitors center's gift shop, where we bought bandan...
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