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GLENN D. SHIRLEY WESTERN AMERICANA COLLECTION, circa ? - 2002
Lobby Cards Series, 1916-2000
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Series Description:
Introduced to theater lobbies in the 1910s to complement movie posters,
lobby cards would be printed on card stock in three general sizes: standard
(11x14), mini (8x14) and jumbo (14x17). The first cards were 8x10"
and printed in black & white or brown & white until the introduction
of color in 1917. Eventually the 11x14" size became the standard.
By the 1920s, a typical lobby card set consisted of eight cards: the title
card that provided credit information, 2-3 scene cards featuring major
stars, 2-3 scene cards featuring minor stars, and the "dead card"
featuring large group shots, extras, or scenery. Coined by collectors,
the term "dead card" refers to the least desirable card in a
set.
Originally created in 1920 for the purpose of producing and distributing
movie trailers, the National Screen Service, upon being approached by
Paramount Pictures in 1939, slowly assumed the responsibility for printing
and distributing nearly 90 percent of the movie paper advertising supplies
for major movie studios. National Screen Service (NSS) implemented a date
and code numbering system in an effort to control the number of movie
studio advertising materials being distributed by its regional offices.
Found in the lower right of the card/poster, the NSS number consisted
of two digits, then a slash (/), followed by between 1 and 4 digits. The
first two digits indicated the year and the last four represented the
sequential order of the particular movie for that year. By 1977 the slash
was removed from the numbering sequence. The letter "R" preceding
the number code indicated re-released or reissued cards/posters. During
the 1980s, most of the NSS regional offices were eliminated and studios
began handling their own printing and distribution.
While one sheet posters are still used widely in theater lobbies and theater
marquees today, after the 1980s, lobby cards and other traditional card
stock formats were phased out by movie studios and no longer used. With
the advent of multi-screen theaters where as many as twelve movies can
be showing simultaneously, the same limited lobby advertising space had
to divided among them. This became an impossibility.
Sources:
Edwin E. Poole and Susan T. Poole, Collecting Movie Posters: An Illustrated
Reference Guide to Movie Art - Posters, Press Kits, and Lobby Cards.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1997.
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Subseries Descriptions:
The titles and original arrangement of the lobby
card subseries were retained. They are: Artist Titles; Oklahoma &
Indian Territory Outlaws, 1919-1981; Oklahoma & Indian Territory (General),
1920-1995; Missouri & Kansas Outlaws, 1939-2000; New Mexico Outlaws,
1938-1988; Western Desperados (Miscellaneous), 1941-1979; and Western
Historical Characters, 1932-1980.
The container
list shows the title of the movie, whether or not there are any promotional
materials or press kits, and the accession number range. One can go to
the Image Archive http://imagedb.nationalcowboymuseum.org/inmagicgenie/opac.aspx,
type in either the movie title in the title field or individual accession
numbers in the any word field.
Subseries: Author Titles
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Subseries: Oklahoma & Indian Territory Outlaws, 1919-1981
This subseries of lobby cards deals with movies about actual outlaws whose
criminal activities were relegated to the geographical confines of Oklahoma
and Indian Territory.
Named at birth Arizona Donnie Clark, Kate "Ma" Barker (1872-1935)
committed a spree of robberies and kidnaps between 1931 and 1935 with
the Karpis-Barker gang. Shelly Winters, Lurene Tuttle, and Blanche Yurka
play Barker.
Known as the Oklahoma Girl Bandits, Annie McDougal and Jennie Stevens,
better known as Cattle Annie and Little Britches, became associated with
the Doolin gang when they were both teenagers. Amanda Plummer and Diane
Lane play Annie and Jennie respectively.
Specializing in bank and train robberies between 1890 and 1892, the Dalton
gang consisted of Grat, Bob, and Emmett Dalton as well as George "Bitter
Creek" Newcomb, Bill McElhanie, Blackfaced Charley Bryant, Bill Doolin,
Dick Broadwell, and Bill Powers. The Dalton brothers and their fellow
gang members are played by a number of actors in the seven movie titles
listed.
William M. "Bill" Doolin (1858-1896) participated in many bank
train robberies upon joining the Dalton gang in 1891. Audie Murphy and
Randolph Scott play Doolin.
Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd (1904-1934) was a bank robber
who was killed by FBI agents in Ohio. His body was placed on display in
Sallisaw, Oklahoma. He is played by singing idol Fabian and John Ericson.
Alphonso J. "Al" Jennings (1863-1961) was for a time in 1897
associated with a gang that robbed trains and general stores. Captured
and sentenced to life in prison in 1899, Jennings was released in 1902
on technicalities and received a presidential pardon from Theodore Roosevelt
in 1907. Dan Duryea plays Jennings. Jennings served as a consultant on
the James Cagney/Humphrey Bogart movie, The Oklahoma Kid.
Probably one of the most famous gangsters of the prohibition era, George
"Machine Gun" Kelly Barnes (1897-1954) committed crimes of bootlegging,
armed robbery, and kidnaps. Charles Bronson plays Kelly.
Notorious bank robbers during the Great Depression, Bonnie Elizabeth Parker
(1910-1934) & Clyde Chestnut Barrow (1909-1934) were joined by Clyde's
brother Marvin Ivan "Buck" Barrow (1905-1933) and his wife Bennie
Iva "Blanche" Frasure (1911-1988). Dorothy Provine and Jack
Hogan play the notorious couple.
Believed to have been born near Ingalls, Oklahoma, Rose Dunn (ca. 1879-1953)
aka Rose of the Cimarron became romantically involved with the outlaw
George "Bittercreek" Newcomb. Mala Powers plays Rose.
Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr better known as Belle Starr (1848-1889)
became associated with the outlaw gangs the James Boys and the Youngers
at an early age. Gene Tierney and Jane Russell play Belle.
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Subseries: Oklahoma & Indian Territory (General),
1920-1995 This subseries deals with movies
whose both dramatic and comedic action occurs in Oklahoma or Indian Territory
including the Cherokee Strip.
While the drama of life occurred in the Cherokee Strip through the movies
associated with Dick Foran, Richard Dix, and Monte Hale, the comedic stylings
of Judy Canova as Oklahoma Annie, Smiley Burnette in Landrush
and The Stranger from Ponca City and Dub Taylor in Oklahoma
Blues are evidenced. While Rex Allen teams up with Fuzzy Knight in
the Hills of Oklahoma, he stars in Old Oklahoma Plains.
The triumvirate of Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and George "Gabby"
Hayes are seen in Home in Oklahoma and The Man from Oklahoma.
Gene Autry stars in Indian Territory while Allan "Rocky"
Lane takes the lead in Oklahoma Badlands. George C. Scott and
Faye Dunaway team in Oklahoma Crude. Johnny Mack Brown is the
hero in Oklahoma Frontier and Oklahoma Justice. Tex
Ritter is the lead in Oklahoma Raiders. Robert Livingston, Duncan
Renaldo, and Yakima Canutt star in Oklahoma Renegades. Bill Williams
stars in Oklahoma Territory. The Oklahoma Woman features
Cathy Downs and Peggie Castle while Downs appear with Rod Cameron in Panhandle.
Susan Hayward and Robert Preston star in Tulsa while Don "Red"
Barry stars in The Tulsa Kid.
Subseries: Missouri & Kansas Outlaws, 1939-2000
This subseries deals with movies whose outlaw action
derives from or is centered in Missouri and Kansas.
Born in Clay County, Missouri, Jesse Woodson James (1847-1882)
was the most famous outlaw of the notorious James-Younger Gang. His brother
Alexander Franklin "Frank" James (1844-1915) was involved in
at least four shoot-outs between 1868 and 1872. By 1868 Jesse and Frank
had joined Younger brothers in a life of banditry.
Many actors played the outlaws Jesse James and Frank James. Donald "Red"
Barry, Henry Brandon, Macdonald Carey, Wendell Corey, Reed Hadley, John
Ireland, James Keach, Clayton Moore, Audie Murphy, Willard Parker, Tyrone
Power, Keith Richards, Dale Robertson, Roy Rogers, Ray Stricklyn, and
Robert Wagner played Jesse. Donald "Red" Barry, Robert Bice,
Jack Buetel, Wendell Corey, Steve Darrell, Jim Davis, Robert Dix, Henry
Fonda, Reed Hadley, Jeffrey Hunter, Stacy Keach, Douglas Kennedy, Richard
Long, Tom Tyler, and Harry Worth played Frank.
Born in Dover, Ohio, William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865), described as
being the "Bloodiest Man in the Annals of America," was the
leader of the Missouri Partisan Rangers and guerilla gang during the Civil
War. Quantrill has been played by Brian Donlevy and Leo Gordon.
The Younger brothers were Thomas Coleman "Cole" Younger (1844-1916)
and his brothers James Hardin Younger (1848-1902), John Harrison Younger
(1851-1874), and Robert "Bob" Ewing Younger (1853-1889). Cole
Younger joined the bushwhacker leader William Clarke Quantrill in 1863
and participated in the slaughter of 200 men and boys in Lawrence, Kansas.
The downfall of the James-Younger gang came with their unsuccessful attempt
to rob the bank in Northfield, Minnesota on September 7, 1876. Bruce Bennett,
James Best, Steve Brodie, David Carradine, Jim Davis, Alan Hale, Myron
Healey, Frank Lovejoy, Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris, Willard Parker, Cliff
Robertson, and Glenn Strange have played Cole Younger.
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Subseries: Western Desperados (Miscellaneous),
1941-1979 The movies represented by these
lobby cards are based on the lives of historical western characters including
the Apache Kid, Kate Averill (Cattle Kate), Black Bart, Sam Bass, Butch
Cassidy, John Wesley Hardin, Black Jack Ketchum, Jean Lafitte, Jack McCall,
Joaquin Murieta, Reno Brothers, and Jack Slade.
Born on the San Carlos Reservation in about 1860, Apache Kid (Ski-be-nan-ted)
worked as a scout under Al Sieber. Reaching the rank of sergeant in 1882,
he accompanied General George Crook on the expedition of the Sierra Madre
the following year. Between 1887 and 1894 he was accused of various crimes.
Don "Red" Barry plays the Apache Kid.
The oldest of ten children, Ellen Liddy Watson (1861-1889) was dubbed
by local newspapers in the late 1880's, as "Cattle Kate." Watson
and her husband, James Averell (1851-1889) were hanged by vigilantes near
the Sweetwater River in Wyoming on July 20, 1889 for the accused crime
of cattle rustling. Maureen O'Hara plays Kate Maxwell a feisty character
with qualities perhaps similar to Cattle Kate.
Charles Earl Bolles (1829-Disappeared 1888-1917?), alias Black Bart, was
the gentleman bandit who left poetic messages after each stagecoach robbery
in and around Northern California and southern Oregon during the 1870s
and 1880s. Dan Duryea plays the notorious outlaw.
Sam Bass (1851-1878) had a lucrative career in train, stagecoach and bank
robbing. As part of a gang, he robbed the Union Pacific gold train from
San Francisco taking $60,000 in 1877. Howard Duff and Willard Parker play
this charismatic, short-lived outlaw.
Born Robert Leroy Parker, Butch Cassidy (1866-ca.
1908) was a notorious train and bank robber who formed the Wild Bunch
upon being released from prison in 1896. He recruited Harry Alonzo Longabaugh,
alias the Sundance Kid (1867-ca. 1908), into the gang. Paul Newman, Tom
Berenger, and Neville Brand have played Cassidy while Robert Redford,
William Katt, and Alan Hale, Jr. have played Sundance.
John Wesley Hardin (1853-1895) whose father was a Methodist preacher
began his violent career in 1867 when he stabbed a student during a schoolyard
fight. A gunfighter with more than thirty notches on his gun, Hardin always
maintained that he never killed anyone who did not need killing and that
he always shot to save his own life. Rock Hudson plays Hardin in The
Lawless Breed.
Thomas Edward Ketchum (1863-1901) known as Black Jack Ketchum was a cowboy
who turned to a life of crime. The train robberies, kidnaps, and killings
brought Ketchum to Clayton, New Mexico where he was executed by hanging.
He was decapitated during this execution. Howard Duff plays this outlaw.
Jean Lafitte (1780? -1826?) was a pirate operating in the Gulf of Mexico.
After the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 he and his older brother Pierre Lafitte
established their own "Kingdom of Barataria" near New Orleans.
He provided troops that specialized in artillery for the Battle of New
Orleans in 1815, greatly assisting Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) in repulsing
the British attack. Yul Brynner plays this buccaneer and Charlton Heston
plays Andrew Jackson.
Jack McCall (1851-1877), also known as Crooked Nose Jack, killed Wild
Bill Hickok (1837-1876) shooting him from behind. George Montgomery plays
"the coward Jack McCall."
Joaquin Murieta (1829-ca. 1853), called the Mexican or Chilean Robin Hood
or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was, depending upon your perspective,
either a bandit or Mexican patriot during the California Gold Rush of
the 1850s. Warner Baxter, Jeffrey Hunter, Carlos Thompson, and Valentin
de Vargas play this legendary figure.
One of the first outlaw brotherhoods in the United States, the Reno Brothers
or Reno Gang included Frank (1835-1868), John (1839-1895), Simeon (1843-1868),
and William (1848-1868). In 1866 they conceived and implemented a new
idea in outlawry, train robbing, with the robbery of an eastbound train
at Seymour, Indiana depot. Forrest Tucker plays Frank, Myron Healey plays
John, and J. Carroll Naish plays Simeon.
Joseph "Jack" Alfred Slade (1829-1864)
was a captain of wagon trains transporting freight along the Oregon Trail
between 1850 and 1858. Around 1859 he was employed as a division chief
for Ben Halladay's Overland Stage Company. John Ericson and Mark Stevens
played this pioneer.
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Subseries: Western Historical Characters, 1932-1980
These lobby cards depict both factual and fictional
scenes in the lives of real western historical persons and corporate entities
such as the Pony Express, Railroads, and the Texas Rangers. The people
portrayed are Judge Roy Bean, Daniel Boone, Jim Bowie, John Brown, Calamity
Jane, Kit Carson, Cochise, William F. Cody, Crazy Horse, Davy Crockett,
George A. Custer, Wyatt Earp-Doc Holliday, Geronimo, Wild Bill Hickok,
Tom Horn, Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, Yellowstone Kelly, Lewis &
Clark, Bat Masterson, Annie Oakley, Isaac C. Parker, Quanah Parker, James
Reavis, Sitting Bull, John Sutter, Jim Thorpe, Pancho Villa, and Emiliano
Zapata.
Phantly Roy Bean (ca. 1825-1903), the "Hangin' Judge",
was an eccentric U.S. saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace who called
himself “The Law West of the Pecos” and held court in his
saloon along the Rio Grande River in west Texas. Although he never met
her, Bean was enchanted by the British actress, Lillie Langtry (1853-1929)
for which he named the saloon, Jersey Lily. Walter Brennan and Paul Newman
play the judge to Lilian Bond and Ava Gardner's Langtry respectively.
Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was a pioneer and hunter whose is most famous
for his exploration and settlement of the state of Kentucky. In 1775 he
blazed the Wilderness Trail through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky and
founded Boonesborough. Bruce Bennett and David Bruce play this frontiersman.
Born in Kentucky and living most of his life in Louisiana, James "Jim"
Bowie (ca. 1796-1836) was a pioneer and soldier who played a prominent
role in the Texas Revolution and died at the Alamo. He carried a style
of knife that came to be known as the Bowie knife that had a blade ten
and one half inches long and two inches wide. Robert Armstrong, Macdonald
Carey, Sterling Hayden and Roger Williams play the tuberculous historic
figure.
Called by Abraham Lincoln a "misguided fanatic," John Brown
(1800-1859) was a white abolitionist who attempted to start a liberation
movement among enslaved blacks at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859. Raymond
Massey plays the treasonous Brown.
Martha Jane Canary-Burke, known as Calamity Jane (1852-1903), was a frontierswoman,
scout, and friend of Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876). Actresses Evelyn Ankers,
Jean Arthur, Doris Day, Yvonne De Carlo, Judi Meredith, and Sally Payne
play her.
Born Christopher Houston Carson, Kit Carson (1809-1868) was a frontiersman,
trapper, guide for John Charles Fremont (1813-1890), and served during
the Mexican American War and various other Civil War and Indian military
campaigns. Jon Hall and Allan "Rocky" Lane play Carson.
Chief of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache, Cochise (ca. 1815-1874)
led an uprising against the U.S. government that began in 1861 and lasted
until 1872. John Hodiak plays the Apache chief.
A scout, bison hunter, and showman, William Frederick
"Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) founded Buffalo Bill's Wild
West show in 1883 in North Omaha, Nebraska. The show's list of performers
included Annie Oakley, Frank Butler (1850-1926), Calamity Jane, and Sitting
Bull. Prior to this show in 1873 Bill formed a touring company called
the Buffalo Bill Combination that put on plays starring Wild Bill Hickok
and Texas Jack Omohundro (1846-1888) and toured for the next ten years.
Richard Arlen, James Ellison, Monte Hale, Charlton Heston, Joel McCrea,
Jim McMullan, Clayton Moore, Paul Newman, and Roy Rogers play this iconic
historical figure.
War leader of the Oglala Lakota, Crazy Horse (ca. 1840-1877) fought
against the U.S. government during the 1860s and particularly during the
Great Sioux War of 1876-77. Victor Mature plays this Sioux warrior.
Frontiersman, soldier, and politician from Tennessee, David "Davy"
Crockett (1786-1836) died defending the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.
Robert Barrat, Lane Chandler, Arthur Hunnicutt, George Montgomery and
Fess Parker play this contemporary of Jim Bowie and William Barret Travis
(1809-1836).
United States Army Cavalry commander, George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876)
was defeated and killed near the Little Big Horn River in eastern Montana
Territory during the Battle of Little Big Horn. He faced a coalition of
Native American tribes led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. His brothers
Thomas Ward Custer (1845-1876) and Boston Custer (1848-1876) were killed
as well. George had married Elizabeth Clift Bacon (1842-1933) on February
9, 1864. Errol Flynn, Frank McGlynn, Jr., Robert Shaw and Sheb Wooley
play the controversial cavalry leader.
Best known for their participation in the gunfight in a vacant lot near
the O. K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory on October 26, 1881,
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (1848-1929) and John Henry "Doc" Holliday
(1851-1887) first met each other in 1877 at Fort Griffin, Texas and cemented
their friendship in 1878 through mutual gambling interests in Dodge City,
Kansas. Henry Fonda, James Garner, Burt Lancaster, Guy Madison, Randolph
Scott, and Harris Yulin play the notorious lawman while Kirk Douglas,
Stacy Keach, Victor Mature, Jason Robards, and Cesar Romero play the consumptive
dentist.
Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache, Geronimo (1829-1909)
fought against Mexican and U.S. troops from 1858 to 1886. On September
4, 1886 he surrendered to General Nelson Appleton Miles (1839-1925) at
Skeleton Canyon, Arizona. Chuck Connors and Chief Thundercloud play the
Apache freedom fighter.
James Butler Hickok, better known as Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876), was
a Civil War scout, lawman, and gunfighter. Tom Brown, Bruce Cabot, Gary
Cooper, Robert Culp, George Houston, Guy Madison, Roy Rogers, and Forrest
Tucker play the assassinated gambler.
Lawman and hired killer, Tom Horn (1860-1903) worked as a Pinkerton Detective
from 1890 to 1894 killing seventeen men during this service. In 1903 he
was arrested by Joe Lefors (1865-1940) for the 1901 murder of 14-year
old Willie Nickell. Tried and convicted, Horn was executed by hanging
on November 20, 1903 at Cheyenne, Wyoming. Steve McQueen plays this assassin.
Sam Houston (1793-1863) was a statesman, politician,
and soldier who led the Texas Revolution and supported Texas annexation
by the United States. Following annexation in 1845, Houston served as
senator between 1846 and 1859 and then as governor. Houston's last-born
child, Temple Lea Houston (1860-1905) was considered by many as one of
the country's best trial lawyers. Richard Dix, Joel McCrea, Edward Peil,
Sr., and Hugh Sanders play the man for whom the city of Houston was named.
Before he was seventh President of the United States (1829-1837),
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was military governor of Florida, commander
of American forces at the Battle of New Orleans, and a founder of the
modern Democratic Party. Jackson married Rachel Donelson Robards (1767-1828)
in 1790, but learned that Robards' previous divorce was not finalized.
They re-married in 1794. During the 1828 presidential campaign, the press
learned of the premature marriage and accused Rachel of adultery. She
died from a heart attack two weeks after her husband's victory. Charlton
Heston and Susan Hayward play the married couple.
Earning his nickname by scouting for the U.S. Army along the Yellowstone
River in 1870s and 1880s, Luther Sage "Yellowstone" Kelly (1840-1928)
served as Chief of Scouts under General Nelson A. Miles from 1876-1878
at the Wolf Mountain and Tongue River battles. Clint Walker plays this
scout.
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838) were explorers
and leaders of the Corps of Discovery whose mission was to explore the
territory of the Louisiana Purchase acquired by President Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826) in 1803. The Lewis and Clark expedition began in August 1803
and ended in September 1806. Fred MacMurray and Charlton Heston play Lewis
and Clark respectively. Sacagawea (ca. 1787-1812), the Shoshone woman
who accompanied the Corps of Discovery, is played by Donna Reed.
A buffalo hunter, U.S. Army scout, gambler, U.S. Marshal, and sports editor,
William Barclay "Bat" Masterson (1853-1921) was a member of
the Dodge City Peace Commission that included Luke Short (1854-1893),
Charlie Bassett (1847-1896), and Wyatt Earp. George Montgomery and Randolph
Scott play Masterson.
Born Phoebe Ann Mosey, Annie Oakley (1860-1926) was a sharpshooter and
exhibition shooter with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show from 1885 to 1901.
She married partner marksman Francis "Frank" E. Butler (1850-1926)
in 1882. Betty Hutton and Barbara Stanwyck play "Little Sure Shot."
Nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) as judge of the federal
district court for the Western District in Arkansas in 1875, Isaac Charles
Parker (1838-1896) presided in this capacity for twenty one years and
became known as the "Hanging Judge."
The last chief of the Quahadi Comanche Indians, Quanah Parker (ca. 1845-1911)
was a victorious participant at the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874 and
founder of the Native American Church movement based on the peyote religion.
Kent Smith plays Parker.
Operating for only a short time from April 1860 to October 1861, the Pony
Express was a fast mail service from the Missouri River to the Pacific
Coast. Alexander Majors (1814-1900) and Benjamin Franklin Ficklin (1827-1871)
assembled 190 relay stations over 1,966 miles from St. Joseph to Sacramento
along with 50 riders and 500 horses.
Considered the father of American railroads, Col. John Stevens, III (1749-1838)
was granted the first railroad charter in 1815 for the New Jersey Railroad.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company was founded in 1870 by William
Jackson Palmer (1836-1909) with the intention of connecting Denver with
Mexico City. Operating from 1863 to 1880, the Kansas Pacific Railway Company
was a federally chartered railroad that was a principal transportation
route opening the central Great Plains to settlement. The Chicago, St.
Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha Railroad, nicknamed the Omaha Road, was
formed as a corporation in 1880 and was a successful subsidiary of the
Chicago and North Western Railway chartered in 1859. The Chicago, Rock
Island, and Pacific Railway Company was originally incorporated as the
Chicago and Rock Island Railroad in 1851 and operated its first train
in 1852 between Chicago and Rock Island, Illinois. Incorporated in 1862,
the Union Pacific Railroad under the guidance of Thomas Clark Durant (1820-1885)
laid its first rails in Omaha, Nebraska. This railroad came together with
the Central Pacific Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869 to form
the first transcontinental railroad in North America.
With the moniker, the Baron of Arizoniac, James Addison Reavis (1843-1914)
was a great imposter who claimed to own much of Arizona through bogus
Spanish land deeds. Vincent Price plays the baron.
Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man, Sitting Bull (ca. 1830-1890) played
a major part in the Native American victory at the Battle of Little Big
Horn against Custer's 7th Cavalry. In 1885 he joined Buffalo Bill's Wild
West show and appeared with the show for four months. Chief Thundercloud,
Frank Kaquitts, and J. Carrol Naish play the Sioux leader.
Famous for his association with the California gold rush and the discovery
of gold in the American River in 1848 by sawmill operator James Wilson
Marshall (1810-1885) at Sutter's Mill, Johann (John) Augustus Sutter (1803-1880)
died nearly poor. Edward Arnold plays the enigmatic Sutter.
In 1823 Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) assembled ten men to act as
rangers for the common defense of the fledgling Anglo settlement in Texas.
These were the ancestral beginnings of the Texas Rangers that formally
appeared in legislation for the formation of two groups of Rangers in
1874: the special force of rangers and the frontier battalion.
Considered by many as the most versatile athlete in modern sports, Jacobus
Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (1888-1953) won gold medals in the pentathlon
and decathlon events at the 1912 summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.
Son of an Irish father and a Sac and Fox mother, Thorpe played professional
football, basketball, and baseball. Burt Lancaster plays Thorpe.
One of the foremost leaders of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1921), Doroteo
Arango Arámbula (1878-1923), better known as Francisco Villa or,
by the nickname for Francisco "Pancho," was provisional governor
of the Mexican state of Chihuahua in 1913 and 1914. Principally remembered
for his 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, Villa provoked the Punitive
Expedition (1916-1917) led by General John Joseph "Black Jack"
Pershing (1860-1948). Yul Brynner, Leo Carrillo, Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr., and
Telly Savalas play this Mexican revolutionary.
Another leading figure of the Mexican Revolution,
Emiliano Zapata Salazar (1879-1919) formed and commanded the Liberation
Army of the South commonly known as the Zapatistas. Marlon Brando plays
Zapata.
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