Cinematic Discoveries Resonating with the Themes of The Iron Test: ...

Dir: Robert N. Bradbury

The story deals, as its name implies, with the rigid law of the Northwest and with Jack Meadows' efforts to set free the girl's father, who is the sheriff. The man has been wounded by outlaws and found in a dying state by Jack and his pal. The two set out to bring the criminals to justice. The girl at first misjudges Jack and believes him responsible for her father's disappearance. When he proves the respected deputy is in reality the leader of a band of liquor smugglers and captures the culprits, she changes her mind. Jack's identity as a government ranger is established.

Dir: Robert N. Bradbury

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of What Love Will Do perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Hoodooed Dale Pemberton, reporter, fails on many jobs and locates on farm with Gregory family. Amos Gregory is accused of murdering three scheming bankers who have disappeared. Dale clears up the mystery after many thrilling experiences and marries Gregory's daughter.

Dir: Robert N. Bradbury

Three men try to find the murderer of one of their pals.

Dir: Robert N. Bradbury

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Sage-Brush Musketeers perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Lumberjack Anthony Briggs has lived alone in the Canadian North Woods ever since his wife took their daughter and ran off to New York City with Robert Lacey, the lumber camp foreman. One day he comes across young Indian chief Lone Wolf and his sister Na-ta-Le, whose tribe has been wiped out by a "spotted sickness", and adopts them. Years afterward Briggs' daughter, now a young woman, returns to lead a hunting party with her fiance, Lacey's son Reynard. Complications ensue.

Dir: Robert N. Bradbury

The uncle of John Davis, killed on the mountains, leaves a will directing that Davis and his cousin, Hawke Morgan, shall be joint guardians of his adopted daughter, Ethel, and receive each a share in a valuable gold mine, the location of which is indicated on a map left, with the will, a certain proportion going to various charities. Hawke Morgan comes out West, and determines to get rid of Davis, and so acquire not only the entire fortune but also the girl who is in love with Davis. He at once sets out to accomplish the murder of Davis, and every stage of the story is packed with exciting adventure, the hero and heroine going through amazing adventures before their final happiness is secured.

Dir: Robert N. Bradbury

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Last of His People perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

There is a legend that anyone who lives in solitude near the lake goes mad. Tom begins to feel the effects when he comes across a girl who has fainted in the desert. Taking her to his cabin he falls in love with her, but later believing she loves another, orders her from the cabin. She goes, but he learns the man was her brother and all ends happily.

Dir: Robert N. Bradbury

Silent Jim Sutherland has a secret sorrow. At length a city financier, his daughter and her fiance all arrive to this Western town and engage Silent Jim as guide to look into some timber land. Silent Jim recognizes the girl's fiance as the man who killed his wife many years before and stole his gold. The truth is revealed in the same cabin that was once Silent Jim's home. An old Indian proves the statement and when the villain attempts to kidnap the girl, he meets his fate at the hands of the dog.

Dir: Robert N. Bradbury

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

A man returns after fifteen years of wandering and finds his daughter. A flash-back tells you the story of fifteen years ago and how the villain "Black Bart" attacked his wife, and how to escape him she jumped from a cliff and killed herself. The baby was kidnapped. "Black Bart" is still active and kills one of the sheriffs. For this crime the girl's lover is suspected, but the father sacrifices himself and goes to prison. "Black Bart" plots the girl's abduction, but a terrific storm takes place and the prison walls are struck by lightning, liberating the man, who rushes to the rescue of his daughter.

Dir: Robert N. Bradbury

Kincade shoots Baird and takes the map to his gold mine. Sutherland finds the dying Baird who tells him the mine's location. Kincade, having lost the map, now goes after the gold Sutherland has taken out of the mine.

Dir: Robert N. Bradbury

When Red Hawk Dugan and his men attack a small wagon train, Colonel Merriwell is killed and the young girl Isobel taken and raised thinking Dugan is her father. Fifteen years later the Colonel's son Jack arrives looking for Dugan whom he learned killed his father. As he hunts for Dugan he meets and falls in love with Isobel only to then learn Dugan is her father.