THE PLAINSMAN

Produced by Paramount pictures in 1936. Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in a saga of America making its frontiers safe for settlers. Lincoln and his cabinet are the curtain-raisers in the story of the opening of the West after the Civil War. The daring courage of the early Scouts and hardihood of women pioneers is the theme

Wild Bill Hickok (Gary Cooper) has just been discharged from the Union Army and is making his way back west. On a paddle steamer, he bumps into his old army scout colleague, Buffalo Bill Cody (James Ellison) and his new bride. Cody rides off to warn the cavalry, while Hickok goes to Deadwood to deal with John Lattimer (Charles Bickford), an agent for the gun makers, has supplied the Cheyenne Indians with repeating rifles.