'The Oregon Trail', with John Wayne

[Captain Long Story, US Cavalry]

 

John Wayne was the archetypal screen cowboy, embodying the rough independence of the American west for generations of film fans. Now, newly discovered still photographs offer fresh insight into a western he made that was last seen more than three-quarters of a century ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24407455

In the film Wayne plays John Delmont, a retired army captain who falls in love with a frontier woman played by Ann Rutherford, who later appears in Gone With the Wind. The plot hinges on the discovery of a journal bound in black that once belonged to Delmont's father.

Reading the diary, Delmont learns that his father has been killed or was left to die by a renegade - and vows to hunt down the killer.

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Thanks for posting that. Very interesting.