Santa Fe Trail

Year: 1940

Runtime: 110 mins

Language: English

Director: Michael Curtiz

WesternEpic heroesWesternsPolitics and human rightsEpic history and literature

After a fight with classmates just before graduation, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four fellow cadets are punished with an assignment to the 2nd Cavalry at Fort Leavenworth. There, on the edge of the railroad, they help capture and execute abolitionist John Brown after the Battle of Harper’s Ferry, showing frontier justice.

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