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Dir: Ben F. Wilson

Dorothy Kane leaves home after being denounced by her father, a businessman, who is dictatorial with his family but very lavish to his female companions in the city. Dorothy unwittingly becomes involved with his nightclub friends, Lottie, Trixie, and Alaska. At a dinner party attended by elderly men and young girls, Dorothy meets her father and decides to decry him to Mrs. Kane, but later feels that it would bring much sorrow to her already neglected mother.

Dir: Ben F. Wilson

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Mine to Keep perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Former playboy Victor Olney becomes jealous of his wife's love soon after he and Constance are married. He is especially hostile toward Clint Mowbray, a former suitor. When Mowbray implies that there was an affair between Olney and a dancer who was injured at Olney's bachelor party, Constance leaves her husband to nurse the girl back to health. Olney's mother-in-law convinces him that Constance was not unfaithful. They are reconciled when Olney goes to Constance and it is ascertained that there was nothing between him and the dancer.

Dir: Ben F. Wilson

During a feud between sheep-men and cattle ranchers, Sheriff Richards is murdered by a man with the ace of spades tattooed on his arm. Chick Richards returns from college upon learning of his father's death and impresses the townspeople as a foppish "dude" with no interest in avenging the murder. Soon after Chick's return, a mysterious, white-robed figure appears in town, fighting for the rights of the oppressed sheep-men. Black Morgan, the leader of the cattlemen, attacks Alice Norris, Chick's former sweetheart, and the White Rider appears, besting Morgan in a brutal fight. The mysterious stranger then removes his robe, reveals himself to be Chick, and arrests Morgan, who has the ace of spades tattooed on his arm. Afterward, Alice and Chick are married.

Dir: Ben F. Wilson

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of White Thunder perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Ben F. Wilson

Using a false accusation of unlawful land-squatting, Bill Edwards (Al Ferguson(1)') goes to the County Seat and has Sheriff Brown to swear out a warrant against sheep-herders Marie Valerian (Neva Gerber) and her father (Silver Tip Baker. The Sheriff sends a Deputy, "Thundering" Thompson (Cheyenne Bill_, back to serve the warrant. Thompson learns that Edwards is only trying to force the Valerians to sell their sheep to him at a cheap price, and comes back without serving the warrant. This enrages Edwards who enlists the aid of a local cattleman and his hands to drive off the sheep. Thompson sets out to keep this from happening.

Dir: Ben F. Wilson

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Red Gold perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Jim Marlow's brother, Chet, who has come west to manage the family mining properties, cheats Pete Daley out of his property. Pete enters Chet's office at night and robs the safe, being seen in the act by Tom Crowley. Pete hides the strongbox and sends a letter to his daughter, Marion, stating its location. Jim gets the letter and finds the strongbox, running afoul of Crowley, who shoots him. The sheriff arrests Jim for stealing the box, and Crowley attempts to take the box from the sheriff at gunpoint. The sheriff shoots Crowley, and Crowley, mortally wounded, tells the sheriff that Pete Daley was the man responsible for the original theft of the box. A lawyer who has been investigating Chet discovers that he has cheated Jim out of the substantial part of his rightful inheritance; Chet is sent to jail, and Jim settles down with Marion Daley.

Dir: Ben F. Wilson

Yak arrives at the Gilmore ranch where rustling has occurred. Gilmore blames a wild horse when it is actually his foreman Mays. After Yak catches and tames the wild horse, Mays gets Yak out of the way by having him arrested for murder. Mays and his men can now make one last raid.

Dir: Ben F. Wilson

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Thundering Thompson perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

When Tyler Burgess goes west to make his fortune, a marriage is arranged between Norma, his society sweetheart, and Brant, the son of a cattle and oil baron. With the aid of a renegade Indian, Burgess breaks up their wedding by casting aspersions on Brant's birth and killing Brant's father. Burgess then marries Norma, but they are unhappy. Brant exposes the frame-up, the Indian kills Burgess, and Brant and Norma are reunited.

Dir: Ben F. Wilson

The foreman of a ranch owned by a pretty young girl captures a herd of wild horses, but the herd's lead horse manages to break them free. The foreman blames a drifting cowboy, Yak, for the break-out. Yak, however, seems intent on provoking a confrontation with the foreman at every opportunity--and, as it turns out, for good reason.

Dir: Ben F. Wilson

A Western which first depicts hero in business with his father, much sought after by mothers in the city, who have marriageable daughters. To no avail, since young man has already made his choice secretly. His father is involved in financial scandal, innocently enough, through clever crook, and the one girl hero believed would understand refuses to see him. Going West, eventually he finds gold and the girl, who is only too glad to be reunited with rugged, brave lover.