Which U.S. location played host to more than 60 Hollywood productions from 1923 to the 1970s?

Since 1923 and into the 1970s, the small city of Sedona in the U.S. state of Arizona, has been the location for more than 60 Hollywood productions. A few of the films that used the environs include, ‘Angel and the Badman’, ‘Desert Fury’, ‘Blood on the Moon’, ‘The Last Wagon’ and ‘3:10 to Yuma’.

An on line guide to Sedona, Arizona describes the Sedona Vortex Sites as a place where over 4 million visitors a year come to experience the “vortex of energy”. A vortex is a place in nature where the earth is exceptionally alive with energy, referring to the earth’s energy swirling and drawing to it’s center, everything that surrounds it like a tornado. Trees often exhibit this swirling and twisting of their trunks due to the powerful vortex energy at the core of the Sedona Vortex.

Sedona is a city that straddles the county line between Coconino and Yavapai counties in the northern Verde Valley region. It lies within the Coconino National Forest.

The city was founded in 1902 and incorporated in 1988. It is at an elevation of 4,350 feet (1,330 m). As of 2019, the estimated population is 10,339.

Sedona was named after Sedona Arabella Miller Schnebly (187-1950), the wife of Theodore Carlton Schnebly, the city’s first postmaster. She was celebrated for her hospitality and industriousness. As an early pioneer, she helped establish the family farm, general store in town and served as the town’s bible school teacher.