Wagon Tracks
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Country United States | 6.8/10 IMDb Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent (English intertitles) Release date July 1919 (1919-07) Writer C. Gardner Sullivan (screenplay), C. Gardner Sullivan (story) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wagon Tracks is a 1919 American Western film written by C. Gardner Sullivan, produced by Thomas H. Ince and William S. Hart, and directed by Lambert Hillyer. Upon its release, the Los Angeles Times described it as Hollywood's greatest desert epic.
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Plot
The film's plot centers on Buckskin Hamilton (played by William S. Hart), a desert guide in the mold of Kit Carson. The film is set in the Gold Rush year of 1850.
Buckskin rides to Westport Landing to meet a steamer from St. Louis. The steamer is carrying a group that Buckskin has been hired to lead west on the old Santa Fe Trail from Kansas to New Mexico. The group aboard the steamship includes Buckskin's younger brother, Billy Hamilton, who has recently graduated from medical school through Buckskin's sacrifices.