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The Far Horizons is a 1955 American historical western film directed by Rudolph Maté about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It is based on 1943 novel Sacajawea of the Shoshones by Della Gould Emmons and stars Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed and Barbara Hale.
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- ↑ "TV and radio". The Jersey Journal. 29 January 1953. p. 31.