Category: 1930s

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 …

A young girl is orphaned during the trip West, losing first her mother, then her mother to an unforgiving stretch of desert. The girl is rescued by Jefferson Worth …

It’s ranchers against farmers in the Wild West, and cattle king Thunder Flint (Duke Lee) has attained the local water rights. So he posts no trespassing signs at the …

The oft-told James Fenimore Cooper tale about the fate of the Munro sisters during the French and Indian War as they attempt to rejoin their father in a British …