Category: 1930s
Jack Hoey plays Harry Tracy in this silent film about how a honest cowpoke wound up spurring one of the biggest manhunt’s in the history of the West. It …
John Ames has struck it rich in California and is taking a fortune in gold back to his home in Mississippi. That’s when bandits strike, determined to rob Ames, …
Mae Marsh is Sally Cameron, an orphan sent with her younger sister to a ranch out West where they’ll live under an uncle’s care. The uncle welcomes them with …
Lillian Gish is Letty Mason, a pretty young girl from Virginia traveling to Sweet Water, Texas, to live with her cousin. On the train ride west, she meets an …
Shirley Temple is Susannah Sheldon, a young girl found hiding in a barrel as the lone survivor when Mounties stumble upon a wagon train massacre. She’s taken back to …
It’s 1833 and new settlers trying to enter Texas find they’re being turned away thanks to a new decree from Mexico’s President Santa Anna. That decision to bar more …
Mexican troops control San Antonio and their disrespect for American women there are causing frequent problems. To keep the local citizenry under control, Santa Anna (Walter Long) orders …
Two wagon trains, one led by Jesse Wingate, one made up of settlers from Liberty, Missouri, converge on what is now Kansas City to begin a 2,000-mile trek to …
Loretta Young is Ramona, a young woman back home from convent and reunited with her “brother” Felipe in California, 1870. They seem very much like a young couple in …
In pre-Civil War Springfield, Ill., a surveyor named Brandon dreams of a transcontinental railroad, and a businessman named Marsh expresses skepticism. Nearby, Abraham Lincoln watches Brandon’s pre-teen son Dave …