Chief John Big Tree
Also Known As: Chief Big Tree
Biography: Chief John Big Tree was born on June 2, 1877 in Buffalo, New York, as Isaac Johnny John. He was an actor, known for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) and Devil's Doorway (1950). He died on July 6, 1967 in Onondaga Indian Reservation, New York. One of three men who posed for artist James Fraser for the profile which became the famous "Indian head nickel" or "buffalo nickel" minted 1913-1938. The other two were Chief Two Moons (of the Cheyenne) and Chief Iron Tail (of the Lakota Sioux). The image was reused for a special commemorative $50 gold piece in 2006--the USA's first 24k (pure gold) coin. Big Tree was a member of the Seneca Nation.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buffalo, New York, USA
Birthday: June 02, 1877
Deathday: July 06, 1967
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Gender: Male
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Stagecoach
Overview: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-02
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Devil's Doorway
Overview: A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Western Union
Overview: When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
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The Girl of the Golden West
Overview: A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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The Overland Telegraph
Overview: At the beginning of the Civil War, as federal troops start to build the first overland telegraph, Indians, who fear the wires, kill some of the linesmen. In response, Major Hammond, who oversees the troops, requests that President Abraham Lincoln send twenty thousand more soldiers to come to his aid. Lincoln grants Hammond's request, and sends along Capt. Allen, who is knowledgeable about Indians. At his new post, Allen discovers that a Confederate spy has been fomenting trouble with the Indians. Allen eventually uncovers the spy, makes peace with the Indians and wins the love of Dorothy, a young woman who lives at the post.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-02
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Sioux Blood
Overview: One of John Waters' two Tim McCoy westerns made with MGM in the last years of the silent era. A print is preserved at the George Eastman House in New York but it hasn't been made available to the public and there don't seem to be any plans for it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-20
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The Red Rider
Overview: White Elk, a light-skinned Indian chief, incurs the enmity of Chief Black Panther, whom he prevents from looting a westbound wagon train. Although White Elk is betrothed to an Indian princess, he falls in love with Lucille Cavanagh, a white woman from the East. After her father, John Cavanagh, tricks White Elk into signing away the lands of his tribe, the young chief is condemned to be burned alive by Black Panther.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-02
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The Iron Horse
Overview: Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
Genres: Western Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-04
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Lost Horizon
Overview: British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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Hudson's Bay
Overview: Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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The Frontier Trail
Overview: Dolly Mainard, en route to her father, a major at Fort Blaine, is escorted through dangerous Sioux territory by a cavalry detachment and Army scout Jim Cardigan. When Captain Blackwell offends some braves of Chief Gray Wolf's tribe, Jim is sent ahead to the Indian camp to ask for peace. Imprisoned by the Indians, he sends a message to Blackwell not to advance; Donlin, a renegade scout, tears the note in such a way that the message is distorted, and the entire force is killed. When Jim escapes, he is accused of treason by Blackwell, court-martialed, and sentenced to death; however, he escapes and rescues Dolly, her father, and Blackwell from Donlin's band of renegades. Jim discovers the missing portion of the note in Donlin's hat, proving his innocence. Dolly remains to become his wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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Painted Ponies
Overview: A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, with her crippled father, runs a merry-go-round for the town's children. The town bully, who has designs on the young girl, tries to drive off the cowboy but is beaten senseless in the resulting fight. Soon afterwards, however, the girl's father is found shot, and the cowboy is arrested for the crime.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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Red Fork Range
Overview: It's time for the stagecoach race to win the mail contract and the only entries are Reden and Farrell. Reden's men kidnap Farrell's daughter and then force him to withdraw. Wally rescues Ruth, buys out Farrel, and enters the race himself. But Reden has his men planted along the course to make sure Wally doesn't win.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-12
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The Huntress
Overview: Bela, reared by Indians, learns that she is a white orphan and runs away from the Indian village to avoid marrying a brave from the tribe. She determines to marry land prospector Sam Gladding, who resists her advances but later falls in love with Bela when an Indian sage gives him some advice.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-20
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Wheels of Destiny
Overview: Bill, who is about to lead a wagon train to California, has a map to a valuable gold field and Rocky is after the map. When Rocky and his men attack, Ken Manning breaks it up and later identifies Rocky and his men as the attackers. Expelled from the wagon train, they stampede a buffalo herd puting the Indians on the warpath. After the Indians attack the wagon train, Rocky thinks he can get the map.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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Susannah of the Mounties
Overview: This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-13
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The Last of the Mohicans
Overview: Natty Bumppo, known as Hawk-Eye, is a frontiersman in the American wilderness. Together with his Indian friends Chingachgook and Uncas, he fights battles against nefarious white soldiers as well as the vicious Indian Magua and his cohorts.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-17
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Custer's Last Stand
Overview: Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-02
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The Oregon Trail
Overview: Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-04
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Destry Rides Again
Overview: Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-30
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Drums Along the Mohawk
Overview: Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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Winners Of The Wilderness
Overview: During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-15
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Hills of Old Wyoming
Overview: An evil deputy is using Indian half-breeds to rustle cattle. This causes trouble between the cattlemen and Indians. Hoppy, Windy and Lucky see that justice is served. Songs abound.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Overview: A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-13
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The Frontiersman
Overview: John Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and the treacherous White Snake in particular.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-11
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Overview: On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-22
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The Singing Vagabond
Overview: Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-16
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The Bold Caballero
Overview: The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Mantrap
Overview: A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-24
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The Telegraph Trail
Overview: A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-18
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Brigham Young
Overview: Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
Genres: History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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North West Mounted Police
Overview: Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Genres: Action Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-22
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Prairie Thunder
Overview: To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell captures Lynch and his gang. But Lynch's Indian friends free him and this time Farrell finds himself the prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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Too Many Girls
Overview: Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-08
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The Primitive Lover
Overview: A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-30
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A Fight For Love
Overview: The Northwest Mounties are after Cheyenne Harry for the murder of an Indian boy, and the only witness to the crime is a priest - who can't tell what he saw because the real killer, Black Michael, has confessed to him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-24
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King of the Arena
Overview: Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Spoilers of the West
Overview: A soldier falls in love with a beautiful settler who has refused his order to leave American Indian land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-10
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Maid of Salem
Overview: When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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The Desert's Toll
Overview: Frank Darwin needs to convince Muriel he didn't kill her Father, as claimed by Jasper and Oneta.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-14
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The Golden West
Overview: Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-29
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The Spirit of '76
Overview: Catherine Montour, a striking half-breed Indian princess, and mistress of King George III aspires to become the first Queen of America when the revolution breaks out.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
Overview: A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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