
Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers..

C. Gardner Sullivan
United States

The Bleached Bones of Justice: Hart's Frontier Morality Play William S. Hart's Buckskin Hamilton emerges not as a hero but as a geological formation of masculinity, eroded by loss yet immovable in purpose. His eyes, squinted against the desert sun, become twin telescopes scanning not just for Apache raiders but...

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Lambert Hillyer

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" The Bleached Bones of Justice: Hart's Frontier Morality Play William S. Hart's Buckskin Hamilton emerges not as a hero but as a geological formation of masculinity, eroded by loss yet immovable in purpose. His eyes, squinted against the desert sun, become twin telescopes scanning not just for Apache raiders but for guilt's subtle tremors. Director Lambert Hillyer frames the wagon train as a microcosm of manifest destiny's fragility - each canvas-covered schooner a coffin awaiting burial ..."


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