Summaries

Being unable to grow crops and pay their land owner Stull due to the drought, Wild Bill gets a group of Kansas farmers to form a wagon train and head to Colorado. Stull is afraid they will ruin his fur business in Colorado and sets out to stop them. He gets there first and giving guns to the Indians, gets them to attack the train.—Maurice VanAuken <[email protected]>

Wild Bill Hickok arrives in a Kansas town just in time to stop the enraged farmers from lynching Dalton Stull, an unscrupulous money-lender, who is foreclosing all their mortgages, after having his henchmen led by Will Tanner, burn, loot and destroy the crops and herds of the settlers. Bill offers to arrange a peaceful settlement, but when this fails, he suggest that the farmers migrate across the border into Colorado. Bill is leading their procession of covered wagons when a band of Indians attack the schooners, incited by Stull who also fears they will interfere with his lucrative fur trade in Colorado. During the attack, Virginia Benton is kidnapped. Bill and his friend, Cannonball, devise a scheme whereby the girl and the wagon train are saved after a desperate battle.—Les Adams <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • b western
  • wild bill hickok character
  • fur trader
Genres
  • Drama
  • Western
Release date Sep 29, 1940
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Approved
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Wind River Reservation, Lander, Wyoming, USA
Production companies Columbia Pictures

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Tech specs

Runtime 58m
Color Black and White
Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1

Synopsis

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