Red Cloud Mesa

of Thrills, the Master of Mystery and Adventure, William and Robeson. Among the American Indian tribes, none cling more tenaciously to the old ways than the Navajo. Herding their sheep across the vast upland plateau of northern Arizona and New Mexico, they live today much as they have for hundreds of years.

And perhaps this is for the best. For the white man's world has never been too gentle with the Navajo. Our story is about such a one, a Navajo whom the white man taught to kill, and then punished because he could not forget his lesson.

Listen, listen then as Joseph Cotton stars in Red Cloud Mesa, who calculated, do keep you in. Just thrusting into the thin air above the flat plateau.

There is blood higher between Cayante and Shiprock, so high the clouds catch on it sometimes. The red clouds of the sun is rising or setting. Red cloud mason. Below the mason where the wheel tracks snake across the reservation from gallop is the red cloud trading post.

I'm the trader. One white man amongst thousands of Indians, lonely. Sometimes, but I like it. I think of the Navajos as my people. They think of me as their friend. That's the way it's always been with us.

I was born here. I grew up here. Today, I nearly died here. I've been expecting you four thumbs. You're my prisoner of captain. Is that the same gun you killed a guard with? You're my...

How'd you know? The radio's full of it. How you shot your way out of the psychiatric ward of the Veterans Hospital. You believe everything you hear on the radio and reading and roof paper? Most everything.