A cowboy rides into your heart and out of existence—85% of this film is gone forever.
Cal Roberts can ride anything with four legs. He enters the contests held at big rodeo. He wins all honors and meets a girl who races horses to help her father clear pressing debts. Complications follow, but Cal wins the girl.
Stunts
Ken Maynard did his own horse falls—no stunt doubles, just broken bones.
Practical Effects
Real rodeo footage blurred with staged drama—1929's practical effects.
Director
Albert S. Rogell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of countless silent Westerns destroyed by studios who saw no value in preservation—nitrate prints burned or buried.
Only reel 4 survives at the Library of Congress; the rest exists only in stills and a 1937 Argentine reissue print that may or may not still exist in Buenos Aires vaults.
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