The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1925-04-10
NORTH OF So is
TALE OF CATTLE
TRAIL OF TEXAS

North of &c." the big picture
which has been long awaited in
Winslow, has been booked by Man
ager John Barncord for Wednes-
day and Thursday of next week.
The synopsis of the story as
shown on the screen follows:
Boys" says Lois Wilson, boys,
I'm broke I'm busted clean and
fair.''
That's the start of Emerson
Hough's novel, North OF &c." which
Irwin Willat produced for Para
mount on the actual locale of the
story as it took place sixty years
ago.
AT that time, many in the south
were bankrupt. Miss Wilson, who
plays the part of Taisie Lockhart,
owner OF the Del Sol ranch in Cen
trail Texas, is no better off than the
rest. Nobody counted their cattle,
for cattle couldn't be sold. There
was no market, no railroad.
The carpetbaggers at Austin, led
by Sim Rudabaugh Noah Berry
are stealing land scrip, driving off
they will be masters of great en-
pire in the south.
Then comes word that railroad
has been built as far as Abilene,
Kansas. Cattle, it is said, are in
demand there at as much as $40 a
head. Taisie decides desperately
to drive all the cattle left by Ruda
baugh's raiders to Abilene-more
than one thousand miles aawy.
Nobody has ever driven cattle
that far. There is no trail. But
Ernest Terrence, playing Jim Ma
bours, the grizZled ranch foreman,
and Jack Holt, as Dan McMasters,
think that it can be done.
The start is made with the north
star as their only guide. McMas-
tiers falls under suspicion. Miss
Wilson's trunk containing the scrip
that gives her title to the Del Sol
ranch disappears and is found in
his wagon. Holt won't explain.
He is banished from the outfit, dis
honored.
Onward moves the herd at it's
pitiful ten miles a day. Past the
Colorado and Brazos river-dan-
gerous swimming for the herd
past Austin, Temple, Waco, Gle
burne and Fort Worth village.
Rudabaugh and his men follow,
determined to stop the caravan.
Rudabaugh knows that if the
reaches the Red river in flood
mediate prosperity for Texas, for
other herds will follow. That would
mean the end of his regime.
After weary months the herd
herd reaches the Red river in flood
time The cattle, by a miracle,
swim across.
On push the drivers into the
dangerous Comanche lands of In
dian territory. Rudabaugh and his
men are still behind. They have
been Joined by McMasters after he
was dishonored by the caravan.
They attack the herd and cause a
stampede.
The Comanches, however, are
even worse than Rudabaugh. I'm
der Chief Yellow Hand they cut the
herd to pieces and surround the
drivers. Just in time the tiny
handful of pioneers are saved by a
company of United States cavalry
from Fort Sill.
At last Abilene appears in the
distance.
But that is not the end
Just when fortune is within Miss
Wilson'S grasp Rudabaugh and his
men sweep down upon her once
more in one of the most dramatic
and colorful climaxes in the history
of screen drama 1t is thing that
will inscribe itself in ones heart as
a thing never to be forgotten.
Here's the second Covered -Wag-
on" of this generation-just as big
a story, just as stupendous pro-
duction. by the same author and
with cast that spells perfection.
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