Sundown

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• 1924
• 1 hr 30 mins
• Drama, Action & Adventure

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Cattleman John Brent heads east to obtain financial aid for western cattlemen. President Theodore Roosevelt tells the cattlemen they will be forced to give way to the advance of civilization, and their ranges will be divided into homesteads. On the train home with Brent is Ellen Crawley, who is going with her father and small brothers to take up a homestead. Ellen meets Hugh Brent, John's son. Brent meets with the cattlemen. They decide they will have to give up their cattle ranges to the homesteaders, and go to Mexico, where there is ample grazing land. Ellen and her father set up their homestead. The cattlemen start the big drive, but the cattle stampede and wreck the Crawley's home, leaving the family with nothing. Although the cattlemen have no sympathy for the Crawleys, Hugh insists they take the family along in a grub wagon. Slowly, Ellen, with her good cooking and willingness to help, makes the cattlemen change their attitude towards her. When a prairie fire breaks out, Hugh tries to get through to warn the other cattlemen, but he is burned. Ellen nurses him back to health, which earns her the elder Brent's gratitude. The railroad refuses permission for the herds to cross into Mexico. So the cattlemen take the railroad by force, block four locomotives, and cross into Mexico. Once there, the cattlemen take up a collection for Ellen to start a new home for her family. Hugh tells her as soon as he is settled he will come back for her and marry her.