Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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White Gold (Jetta Goudal). Old Carson (George Nichols) owns a sheep ranch, these six months blistered by a relentless sun. With his son, Alec (Kenneth Thomson), he herds his woolly treasure on scorched hills. Into their baked monotony the son brings his bride, a young dancing girl of quick spirit (Jetta Goudal). The maddening sun drives them all to exasperation, so that when a tramp herder (George Bancroft), driven by hunger for the bride, forces his way into the room Alec left in a huff, tragedy stalks along with him. The film comes as near to genuine tragedy as anything...
...President, Col. A. A. Anderson, who says he has shaken hands with every President since Lincoln, offered his 150,000-acre Wyoming ranch for the Summer White House lawn...
...suicide, he meets a stray from the East, a shop-girl from Newark, who has been induced by a lady real estate agent to come to a boom town which has failed to boom. What could be more natural than that the hero should take this waif to his ranch, on the theory that two can starve as cheap...
They do not starve, but with the inspiration of Effie, Victor overcomes tremendous hardships and makes the ranch go. The worst misfortune they suffer is the ostracism of the frontier community, because for some reason which is not made clear the two outcasts have not bothered to marry. In the end Effie dies in childbirth, while Victor is off with the sheep; but he has learned to carry...
...story centers around a bandit named "Flaming Death" who terrorizes the Arizona ranch of "Pa" Ogden...