Plot Summary
Billy Milford, Harvard graduate, goes west to seek his fortune. In Addertown he secures a position as stationmaster of the L. & R. Railroad, but is forced out because of his drinking habits. He accidentally meets Gunhild, an emigrant Norwegian girl, as she arrives in Addertown to take up her home with Jan Hagsberg, the town's saloonkeeper. Seeking revenge on the railroad, Milford joins Jim Dorsey in a scheme to hold up the road's paymaster on his way to pay the employees of the company's mine.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- A Yankee from the West
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- en
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Cast
Wallace Reid
Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud
Seena Owen
Gunhild, a Norwegian Girl
Tom Wilson
Jim Dorsey, Milford's Pal
Josephine Crowell
Mrs. Stuvic, an Illinois Matron
Chris Lynton
Professor Emerson
William H. Brown
Jan Hagnerg, Gunhild's Uncle
Al W. Filson
Whitney Mills, R.R. Superintendent
George Siegmann
Sheriff Dick
Fred Gamble
The Railroad Superintendent