The Pioneers (1903)

Directed by

Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent Western from the early 1900s. It shows settlers traveling west in covered wagons and facing dangers.

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What happens

The Pioneers is an American silent film and one of the earliest Westerns, having been released by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in October 1903. It incorporates part of the footage from Kit Carson, another Western short also released by Biograph in October 1903. Both films were shot on location in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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