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In the midst of the Oregon boundary dispute with British North America, President James K. Polk (1845–1849) is secretly sending military agents, disguised as pioneers, out west on the Oregon Trail so that they can protect American settlers in the event of war.
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Arvo Oswald Ojala (February 21, 1920 – July 1, 2005) was a...
- Oregon Trail
The 1930 Western film The Big Trail featured John Wayne in...
- Arvo Ojala
The Oregon Trail: Directed by Gene Fowler Jr.. With Fred MacMurray, William Bishop, Nina Shipman, Gloria Talbott. In 1846, a newspaperman joins an Oregon Trail wagon train to verify rumors about the U.S. government sending troops disguised as settlers there in order to claim Oregon.
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- Drama, Western
- Gene Fowler Jr.
- 1959-09
The 1930 Western film The Big Trail featured John Wayne in his first starring role as a fur trapper leading a large wagon train of settlers across the Oregon Trail. The 1967 film The Way West , starring Kirk Douglas , Robert Mitchum , and Richard Widmark , was based on the novel of the same name by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
In 1846, the United States, under President James K. Polk, plans to extend the country's borders to the edge of the Oregon territory, despite conflicting claims by the British. Facing possible war, Polk orders soldiers disguised as civilians into the territory.
- Gene Fowler Jr., Ralph J. Slosser
- Fred Macmurray
Mar 7, 2023 · The Oregon Trail (1959) Mark Franklin March 7, 2023 1950s. Fred MacMurray is Neal Harris, a newspaperman sent to Oregon by the editor of the New York Herald to find out if the government is secretly sending troops West to prepare for a fight with the British over control of the territory.
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The Oregon Trail is a 1959 American western movie directed by Gene Fowler Jr. and Fred MacMurray, William Bishop, Nina Shipman, Henry Hull, John Carradine. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.