OVERLOOKED FILM: FIGHTING CARAVANS (1931)

Here's an early Gary Cooper western from the novel by Zane Grey, a tale of wagon trains, fighting Indians, and duplicitous traders.  Coop stars as a frontier scout who must navigate between the beautiful Lili Damita and the above mentioned perils.  Also featuring Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, Fred Kohler, and the always watchable Eugene Pallette, Fighting Caravans was directed by Otto Brower and David Burton, with a screenplay by Edward E. Paramore, Jr., Keene Thompson, and Agnes Brand Leahy.

As the original poster for this film puts it, "Writing, in flames and blood, the vivid history of those epic days."

Enjoy.

https://archive.org/details/FightingCaravans1931_368