Olin Howland

After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown. After the Civil War four brothers who fought for the South head west. Yanks are building the Santa Fe Railroad and one of the brothers joins them. The other three still hold their hatred of the North and join up with those trying to stop the railroad's completion. The one brother unsuccessfully tries to keep the other brothers out of trouble but eventually has to join the posse that is after them. —Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net> After the end of the US Civil War, former Confederate soldier Britt Canfield gets a job building the Santa Fe railroad. He's good at his job and soon finds himself the number two man. His urges his three brothers - Terry, Tom and Clint - to join him, but they still can't quite accept that the South was defeated. Britt also meets the very attractive Judith Chandler whose husband was killed while serving in the Union army. When his brothers take to robbing trains, Britt finds himself opposing them. —garykmcd Following the Civil War, Confederate-veteran Britt Canfield (Randolph Scott) becomes assistant to Santa Fe Railroad construction chief Dave Baxter (Warner Anderson) and falls in love with Judith Chandler ('Janis Carter), the railroad paymaster. Despite his request they go to work for the railroad, Britt's brothers Terry (Jerome Courtland), Tom (Peter M. Thompson) and Clint (John Archer), still fighting for a lost cause, join an outlaw gang robbing trains. Britt is soon forced to lead a posse against his brothers. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

After his father is sentenced to death for accidentally killing a cop, Johnny's family is left to fight for survival. His sister becomes a burlesque performer for money while Johnny joins a local gang and turns to a life of street crime. After his father is sentenced to death for accidentally killing a cop, Johnny's family is left to fight for their own existence. His sister becomes a burlesque performer for the money while young Johnny joins a local gang and turns to a life of street crime. After much trouble and little reward for his crimes, Johnny is faced with the prospect of reform school before he makes his way to the road of recovery. "Little Tough Guy" is a true-to-life drama of one family's struggle for survival in New York's slums during the Great Depression. —Anonymous The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who sent the boy's father to the electric chair. —frankfob2@yahoo.com

An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit. Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont receives the news that her terminal case of radium poisoning from a workplace incident was a complete misdiagnosis with mixed emotions. She is happy not to be dying, but she, who has never traveled the world, was going to use the money paid to her by her factory to go to New York in style. She believes her dreams can still be realized when Wally Cook arrives in town. He is a New York reporter with the Morning Star newspaper. He believes that Hazel's valiant struggle concerning her impending death is just the type of story he needs to resurrect his name within reporting circles after a recent story he wrote led to scandal and a major demotion at the newspaper. He proposes to take Hazel to New York both to report on her story but also to provide her with a grand farewell to life. She accepts. Wally's story results in Hazel becoming the toast of New York. In spending time together, Wally and Hazel fall in love. Hazel not only has to figure out what to do about her relationship with Wally, but also how to conclude her now very public story, which all of New York expects will be a public and imminent death. Others, however, may conclude the story for her. —Huggo To redeem himself after a hoax, reporter Wallace Cook proposes a series of stories on doomed Hazel Flagg. Hazel discovers she really doesn't have radium poisoning, but still accepts the big fling in New York that Cook offers her. At first, she has a great time, but complications arise when she and Wally fall in love, and an Austrian specialist discovers that Hazel is faking. —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Alexander is trying to make a big sale of Earthworm tractors to grouchy lumberman Johnson. Since Alexander doesn't really know anything about tractors and since Johnson is opposed to tractors of any kind, it isn't going to be an easy sell. Alexander Botts is a self-described natural born salesman and master mechanic, who is trying to make a big sale of Earthworm tractors to grouchy lumberman Johnson. Since Botts doesn't really know anything about tractors, and since the old-fashioned Johnson is opposed to tractors of any kind, it isn't going to be an easy sell. But Botts perseveres, encouraged by Johnson's daughter. —Snow Leopard Author William Hazlett Upson turned his work experience with the Holt Caterpillar Company into a second career when "The Saturday Evening Post" published his first story in 1927 in the saga of tractor salesman extraordinare Alexander Botts and Earthworm crawlers. The series was so popular that it led to 112 Botts tales and a movie.