The Wild Country is a 1970 American Western adventure film directed by Robert Totten and starring Steve Forrest and Vera Miles.
[4] In the late 1880s, Jim and Kate Tanner along with their sons Virgil and Andrew move from Pittsburgh to a farm in Wyoming, where they find the ranch in dilapidated condition.
[5] Howard Thompson of The New York Times wrote: "That good old reliable, the Walt Disney organization, has done it again, quietly and commendably, with a wholesome, sturdily old-fashioned film of a Western pioneer family titled The Wild Country.
"[6] Variety noted: "Romancing of Disney producers with frontier family themes for the general audience trade again finds satisfactory fulfillment in this latest effort filming the indomitable American spirit that conquered the West and helped develop a nation.
[7] Kenneth Thompson of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A delightfully old-fashioned combination of Western and pioneering drama, based on the conventional opposition between might and right, and with the honest rancher displaying exemplary tenacity in his determination to achieve a legal settlement of his grievances.