Stanley and Livingstone Colonel Grimes tells two peace commissioners sent from Washington DC that he cannot permit them to try to contact the Indians of the Wyoming Territory of 1870, as it would be suicidal, only to have Stanley emerge from the wilderness, escorted by a band of the natives and his guide, Jeff Slocum (Walter Brennan). When Stanley returns to New York City, his employer, "New York Herald" publisher James Gordon Bennett, Jr., gives him another near-impossible assignment. The "London Globe" has announced that an expedition headed by Gareth Tyce (Richard Greene), the son of the "Globe"s publisher, Lord Tyce (Charles Coburn),
David Livingstone to Britain to garner support for his ideas, and to publish a book on his travels which brought him fame as one of the leading explorers of the age. Livingstone believed that he had a spiritual calling for exploration to find routes for commercial trade which would displace slave trade routes, rather than for preaching. He was encouraged by the response in Britain to his discoveries and support for future expeditions, so he resigned from the London Missionary Society in 1857. According to his Victorian biographer W. Garden Blaikie, the reason was to prevent public concerns that his non-missionary activities