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Santa Fe Trail

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As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Archivist Notes

rclo★★★

"Perhaps the story is not historically accurate in every respect, as indicated by another reviewer, but it's close enough to make the point. John Brown..."

4/27/2011
kareneliot★★★★

"I liked this movie... but I like most civil war movies."

3/28/2010
Jeremy Sachs★★★★

"Archive tell me that writing a review is the only way to get hold of the person who posted this film. I am emailing from a certain theatre company in ..."

9/28/2009
slugs and urchins★★★

"This is a very entertaining bit of historical nonsense. It distorts nearly every aspect of the politics involved in Kansas at the time. The one thing..."

5/15/2009
quigs★★★★★

"Much better!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I can actually watch this film instead of listening to it. The other version of Santa Fe Trail; dump it in the trash can..."

5/6/2009
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