The Ballad of Josie is a 1967 Technicolor American comedy Western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen[1] and starring Doris Day, Peter Graves, and George Kennedy.

[2] It was filmed on two locations in Thousand Oaks, California: North Ranch and Wildwood Regional Park.

She accidentally kills her abusive alcoholic husband when she opens the bedroom door and knocks him backward down the stairs.

Her father-in-law gets custody of her young son (since he was better able to provide for his care) and takes him to Cheyenne to live while she tries to build a life as a rancher (including wearing Levi's pants, boots, etc.).

Josie then incurs the annoyance of her male cattle rancher neighbors by farming sheep north of the Wyoming deadline[circular reference]), and setting up a women's suffrage movement.