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MacMurray's homestead is equipped with props out of the Coney Island fun house: loose floorboard, collapsing bed, backfiring stove and a small gale that hits at the worst possible time. Heroine Dunne must also cope with livestock and servant problems, gossipy neighbors, a spoilsport (William Demarest) who controls the water supply, and the delicate affections of her husband's two daughters by another marriage...
...Cleveland Indian. Full of good will for his white brothers, and wearing his Congressional Medal of Honor, Taylor rides back from the Civil War to raise cattle on his family's ancient acreage. A villainous, mustachioed lawyer (Louis Calhern) persuades a band of sheep raisers to homestead on Taylor's land, thus compounding two time-honored feuds: sheep v. cattle and settlers v. Indians. A pretty female lawyer (Paula Raymond) with an unrequited yen for Taylor tries for a peaceful agreement...
Last Rush. To salve his conscience as he grew older and the calendar ran m reverse, he joined the pickets in the bloody Homestead steel strike of 1892, and actually went so far as to jostle a Pinkerton. After that, Mark devoted the rest of his life to visiting Walt Whitman, dressing French wounds in the Franco-Prussian War and preaching Wilsonian democracy on park benches to young men who weren't even ready for Grover Cleveland...
...horses were outstanding in the 13-horse field. On the basis of his two-year-old championship record, E. J. Hayes's strapping brown colt, Lusty Song, had been made the winter book favorite. But at post time the crowd had taken a fancy to the Arden Homestead's Star's Pride...
...half-century since he moved from Ontario to a scrubby homestead near Alberta's Bon Accord, life for weather-lined Bill Mulligan, 62, had been hard-pressed. Old Bill and his wife Florence were a local Maw & Paw (The Egg and I) Kettle. They lived in an unpainted shack with their eleven kids. Through the hard winters they had to rip up the floor for firewood. The family's income fell so low that the boys would hire out to neighbors, then borrow the neighbors' farm machinery in lieu of wages to work their own land...