Tex Benton, a cowboy from Texas, is in love with Janet McWhorter, the daughter of a sheep rancher. Mr.


The first thing that strikes you about Prairie Trails is how the film refuses to behave like the oaters that bookended it in 1920. Where Lion of Venice luxuriated in gondola chases and The Brand of Satan wallowed in occult tintypes, this lean, sun-crisped western strips mythology to sinew and heartbeat. Tom Mix, that ...

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" The first thing that strikes you about Prairie Trails is how the film refuses to behave like the oaters that bookended it in 1920. Where Lion of Venice luxuriated in gondola chases and The Brand of Satan wallowed in occult tintypes, this lean, sun-crisped western strips mythology to sinew and heartbeat. Tom Mix, that maestro of rodeo bravura, vaults from Texas dust into Wyoming’s sheep wars with a grin sharp enough to cut barbed wire. The plot, deceptively folkloric, is a pocket-sized Taming of..."
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