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Chief John Big Tree was born on June 2, 1877 in Buffalo, New York, as Isaac Johnny John. He was an actor, known for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) and Devil's Doorway (1950). He died on July 6, 1967 in Onondaga Indian Reservation, New York.
One of three men who posed for artist James Fraser for the profile which became the famous "Indian head nickel" or "buffalo nickel" minted 1913-1938. The other two were Chief Two Moons (of the Cheyenne) and Chief Iron Tail (of the Lakota Sioux). The image was reused for a special commemorative $50 gold piece in 2006--the USA's first 24k (pure gold) coin.
Big Tree was a member of the Seneca Nation.
Most Popular Chief John Big Tree Trailers
Total trailers found: 49
12 January 1931
It's time for the stagecoach race to win the mail contract and the only entries are Reden and Farrell.
01 March 1934
Bill, who is about to lead a wagon train to California, has a map to a valuable gold field and Rocky is after the map.
10 September 1937
To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad.
02 August 1925
White Elk, a light-skinned Indian chief, incurs the enmity of Chief Black Panther, whom he prevents from looting a westbound wagon train.
02 March 1929
At the beginning of the Civil War, as federal troops start to build the first overland telegraph, Indians, who fear the wires, kill some of the linesmen.
01 January 1917
Catherine Montour, a striking half-breed Indian princess, and mistress of King George III aspires to become the first Queen of America when the revolution breaks out.
10 December 1927
A soldier falls in love with a beautiful settler who has refused his order to leave American Indian land.
24 March 1919
The Northwest Mounties are after Cheyenne Harry for the murder of an Indian boy, and the only witness to the crime is a priest - who can't tell what he saw because the real killer, Black Michael, has confessed to him.
11 June 1927
John Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and the treacherous White Snake in particular.
14 November 1926
Frank Darwin needs to convince Muriel he didn't kill her Father, as claimed by Jasper and Oneta.
25 September 1927
A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, with her crippled father, runs a merry-go-round for the town's children.
20 April 1929
One of John Waters' two Tim McCoy westerns made with MGM in the last years of the silent era. A print is preserved at the George Eastman House in New York but it hasn't been made available to the public and there don't seem to be any plans for it.
20 August 1923
Bela, reared by Indians, learns that she is a white orphan and runs away from the Indian village to avoid marrying a brave from the tribe.
12 February 1937
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts.
04 July 1939
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon.
02 January 1936
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
02 March 1939
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
27 September 1940
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City.
15 January 1927
During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
10 November 1939
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
24 December 1940
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay.
30 April 1922
A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
01 June 1933
Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate.
01 November 1930
Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.
22 October 1949
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack.
20 June 1926
Dolly Mainard, en route to her father, a major at Fort Blaine, is escorted through dangerous Sioux territory by a cavalry detachment and Army scout Jim Cardigan.
13 January 1936
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father.
21 February 1941
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
05 July 1935
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
04 October 1925
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route.
24 March 1928
A girl leads the way across the great Oregon Trail.
01 December 1936
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
22 October 1940
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder.
03 March 1937
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La.
30 November 1939
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
18 August 1950
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
29 October 1932
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West.
24 July 1926
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.
13 June 1939
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood).
17 May 1932
Natty Bumppo, known as Hawk-Eye, is a frontiersman in the American wilderness. Together with his Indian friends Chingachgook and Uncas, he fights battles against nefarious white soldiers as well as the vicious Indian Magua and his cohorts.
28 March 1941
A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub.
18 March 1938
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
08 October 1940
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards.
16 December 1935
Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
16 April 1937
An evil deputy is using Indian half-breeds to rustle cattle. This causes trouble between the cattlemen and Indians.
18 March 1933
A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory.
31 December 1915
Prospector Dave Foster and his daughter Beulah live on a worthless claim until Foster befriends an Indian named Chegup.
13 March 1921
A young woman tries to find out the reason behind why all of her female ancestors have been killed before they reach their 21st birthday.
13 January 1940
Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted.
