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economy in the Four Corners suffered. According to and sat down. When an assistant arrived to evict this
the Goulding account, the couple went to Hollywood to trespasser, Goulding pulled out photos of the signature
sell Ford on the valley as a film location, to help both buttes and waved them under the man’s nose. That got
themselves and their Navajo neighbors. Harry Goulding his attention, as well as Ford’s, who used Monument
talked his way past the studio gate and to the office of Valley as a film location from then on.
Ford’s producer, Walter Wanger, whereupon he was told No one really knows which of these stories is true –
to leave. Instead, he told the receptionist he had all the perhaps each is partially true –but this was Hollywood,
time in the world, laid out a Navajo blanket on the floor where a good story is everything, and because Gould-

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