
William S. Hart as Buckskin Hamilton, 1919, directed by Lambert Hillyer from a C. Gardner Sullivan story. A Santa Fe Trail guide in 1850 whose brother has been killed, supposedly by Jane Washburn in self-defense. Hart leads the wagon train and suspects Jane's gambler brother. Joseph August photographed the desert. The Los Angeles Times called it the industry's greatest desert epic that year. Prints survive at the Library of Congress.
The Santa Fe Trail in 1850, a dead brother, and a wagon train led by the man who wants the killer in it. August photographs the desert, and the Times called it the year's desert epic. Watch the train move. The revenge waits while the land does the work.