Word: trappers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Davis is beguilingly guileful as a runaway slave who changes hands like a dirty dollar. He is captured by a band of Indians, who unload him on Fur Trapper Lancaster as "payment" for the load of skins they steal from him. The redskins, in turn, are zapped by a batch of bounty hunters, who earn their living by selling Indian scalps for $25 apiece, and Davis gets himself captured by these private enterprisers. Their queen is Shelley Winters, a refugee from a fancy house. She nurses her stogie on a brass bed in the covered wagon...
...gathering of Ute and Apache Indians became threatening. Meriwether suspended him forthwith. After Carson sent an abject letter of apology, Meriwether grudgingly reinstated him, but as long as the semiliterate Carson remained in his service Meriwether issued reprimands about his sloppy administration. "Poor Kit," he said, "was a good trapper, hunter, and guide, and . . . had acquired a reputation which spoiled him, and which in after life and in a higher position he failed to sustain...
...frontiersmen became indistinguishable from the Indians in their drinking habits, their beaded buckskins, and war paint. If anything, says Dale Van Every in the fourth and final volume of his Frontier People of America, the paleface invaders were "morally more savage than their Indian victims." On one occasion, a trapper found rivals following him to learn the most lucrative beaver streams. His solution was to lead them through the country of the Blackfeet, who ambushed and dismembered the rivals' leader...
...Many of the juiciest roles are just a drop in the Cinerama bucket. Thelma Ritter is a snappish delight as a man-hungry wagon woman. Walter Brennan is deliciously vile as a river pirate who uses his vamp-eyed daughter (Starlet Brigid Bazlen) as bait to lure fur-laden Trapper Jimmy Stewart to a temporary downfall at the bottom of a cave. Raymond Massey is, for what seems like the four-score-and-tenth time, Abraham Lincoln. Gregory Peck is a tinhorn gambler, Robert Preston a roaring wagon master, Henry Fonda a walrus-mustached buffalo hunter...
...Chicago American Gossip Columnist Maggie Daly Bazlen, Brigid is compared by flacks to Elizabeth Taylor and described by associates as a "woman-child" with "something inside her that is 30." In How the West Was Won, she ends up hanging from a tree limb because she lures Old Trapper Jimmy Stewart into a cave, goes for his pelt and tries to kill him. When she is really 30. she'll probably...