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In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.

Clark Gable
Flint Mitchell

Ricardo Montalban
Ironshirt

John Hodiak
Brecan

Adolphe Menjou
Pierre

J. Carrol Naish
Looking Glass

Jack Holt
Bear Ghost

Alan Napier
Capt. Humberstone Lyon

George Chandler
Gowie

Richard Anderson
Dick

María Elena Marqués
Kamiah
Across the Wide Missouri is a adventure, romance, western film released in 1951 exploring themes of montana, fur trapping. Directed by William A. Wellman, it stars Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak. In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
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