Pampered Easterner Tom Ransom is sent West by his father, a meatpacking tycoon, to buy a large herd. Tom soon comes into conflict with the agents of Bennett, an unscrupulous rival, who tries to steal the herd from him.


The Metamorphosis of the Urban Scion: A Deep Dive into Two Fisted Tenderfoot To witness the 1924 silent Western Two Fisted Tenderfoot is to observe a quintessential American myth in its most concentrated form. The trope of the 'tenderfoot'—the soft-palmed Easterner who ventures into the wild interior only to find hi...


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" The Metamorphosis of the Urban Scion: A Deep Dive into Two Fisted Tenderfoot To witness the 1924 silent Western Two Fisted Tenderfoot is to observe a quintessential American myth in its most concentrated form. The trope of the 'tenderfoot'—the soft-palmed Easterner who ventures into the wild interior only to find his true mettle—was already a staple of the genre by the mid-twenties. However, under the shrewd direction of J.P. McGowan, this particular iteration transcends the usual slapstick p..."
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