A wild ride
Dakota Incident (1956) is a movie that stands out in my memory―not for its quality and popularity, but for a lesson I learned during its filming.
I had been hired as the stunt double for the film’s co-star, Linda Darnell. By this time, I was well into my career as a stuntwoman and my specialty was working with horses. Almost all of Dakota Incident was shot on location in what is now Red Rock Canyon State Park on the northwest edge of California’s Mojave Desert.
On the appointed day, a limo came to take me to the Mojave set.
