
Wagon Wheels Westward
Western
Overview
In this western, Red Ryder leads a wagon train of homesteaders into a ghost town and discovers that it has become an outlaw's hideout.
Top Cast


Bill Elliott
Bill Elliott
Red Ryder
Bill Elliott
Red Ryder


Robert Blake
Robert Blake
Little Beaver
Robert Blake
Little Beaver


Alice Fleming
Alice Fleming
Martha Wentworth
Alice Fleming
Martha Wentworth


Linda Stirling
Linda Stirling
Arlie Adams
Linda Stirling
Arlie Adams


Roy Barcroft
Roy Barcroft
Dave McKean
Roy Barcroft
Dave McKean


Emmett Lynn
Emmett Lynn
Pop Dale
Emmett Lynn
Pop Dale


Dick Curtis
Dick Curtis
Henchman Tuttle
Dick Curtis
Henchman Tuttle


Jay Kirby
Jay Kirby
Bob Adams
Jay Kirby
Bob Adams


George J. Lewis
George J. Lewis
Lunsford
George J. Lewis
Lunsford


Bud Geary
Bud Geary
Fake Sheriff Brown
Bud Geary
Fake Sheriff Brown
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The ranch of Red Ryder (Allan Lane) and his aunt, The Duchess (Martha Wentworth), is being used as the training site for "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (George Turner) for his upcoming fight in Carson City, Nevada for the heavyweight championship against Bob Fitzsimmons (John Dehner). Molly McVey (Peggy Stewart), the daughter of a U.S. Senator, crusading against prize-fighting in Nevada, complicates matters soemwhat when she conceives the bright idea of having Corbett kidnapped, thus causing the cancellation of the fight. The two men (George Chesebro and George Lloyd) she hires to do the kidnapping also add to the complications by kidnapping Ryder instead of Corbett. Meanwhile, a gang of crooks, led by McKean (Roy Barcroft), descend on the town intent on looting the town and also making off with the fight proceeds.

The Duchess, the aunt of Red Ryder, comes to town to protect her property. Crawford, a town big-shot behind an outlaw gang, tries to prevent her from reaching her destination, but the attack is thwarted by Red. The latter is made town marshal, and when he gets too close to the truth and is making it too hot for the Crawford faction, Crawford has his henchman Luke kidnap Red's Indian friend Little Beaver.

An interesting entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Red Ryder" B-Western series, this film is not about hardy settlers braving the Colorado winters, as the title would suggest. Instead it's a sort of Reform School Western about a couple of wayward Chicago boys (Billy Cummings and Freddie Chapman) taken in by Ryder's indomitable aunt, "The Duchess" (Alice Fleming.) The boys escaped their very own "Fagin," Bull Reagan (Roy Barcroft), and were given a second chance on the lady's Western ranch. Unfortunately, Reagan returns to do a bit of cattle rustling, once again luring the boys into becoming his accomplices.




















