Certainly not Hestons best role. The story isn't very engaging and I think [spoiler] the death at the end was rather unnessessary. [/spoiler] And in typical 50s Hollywood fashion Indians must all be bad and it is full of historical inaccuracies (f.e. the Pony Express started in 1860, Cody was born 1846. Do the math). It is one of those western where they took events and characters from real history and threw them together. I don't expect one hundred percent accuracy but in the end the plot makes the movie and this was mediocre.