The Last Frontier (1926)
Impoverished by the Civil War and eager to replenish his fortune in the West, Colonel Halliday, his wife, and his daughter, Beth, proceed toward Salina, Kansas by wagon train, at the persuasion of Tom Kirby, a government scout and Beth's fiancé. Although Bill Hickok, Tom's friend, and a company of cavalry are in charge, Pawnee Killer, chief of the Sioux, attacks the wagon train, and Halliday and his wife are killed. Bill rides to Salina for help and to deliver the news to Buffalo Bill Cody. Beth, now hostile to Kirby, joins the household of Lige Morris, a trader in Salina, and, at the suggestion of Bill, Kirby joins General Custer's scouting expedition.
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Impoverished by the Civil War and eager to replenish his fortune in the West, Colonel Halliday, his wife, and his daughter, Beth, proceed toward Salina, Kansas by wagon train, at the persuasion of Tom Kirby, a government scout and Beth's fiancé. Although Bill Hickok, Tom's friend, and a company of cavalry are in charge, Pawnee Killer, chief of the Sioux, attacks the wagon train, and Halliday and his wife are killed. Bill rides to Salina for help and to deliver the news to Buffalo Bill Cody. Beth, now hostile to Kirby, joins the household of Lige Morris, a trader in Salina, and, at the suggestion of Bill, Kirby joins General Custer's scouting expedition.
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Genre:Drama, Western
Written By:Will M. Ritchey, Courtney Ryley Cooper
In Theaters:8/16/1926
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Runtime:80 minutes
Studio:Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California
Cast
George B. Seitz
Director
William Boyd
Tom Kirby
Marguerite De La Motte
Beth
Jack Hoxie
Buffalo Bill Cody
J. Farrell MacDonald
Wild Bill Hickok
Frank Coghlan Jr.
Buddy
Mitchell Lewis
Lige
Gladys Brockwell
Cynthia Jaggers
Frank Lackteen
Pawnee Killer
Sally Rand
Caprice Lane (uncredited)
Nipo T. Strongheart
Indian Chief (uncredited)
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