<P> The Academy Film Archive preserved The Big Country in 2006 . </P> <P> A comic book adaptation of the novel and tie - in to the movie was first released in 1957 . </P> <P> The Blanco Canyon scenes were filmed in California's Red Rock Canyon State Park . The ranch and field scenes with greenery were filmed in the central California Sierra foothills near the town of Farmington . </P>

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