{{short description|1940 film by Sam Nelson}} {{About|a film|the covered wagon|Prairie schooner}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Prairie Schooners | image = PrairieSchooners.poster.jpg | alt = | caption = Theatrical poster for the film | director = Sam Nelson | producer = Leon Barsha | screenplay = Robert Lee Johnson,<br>Fred Myton | story = | based_on = | starring = Bill Elliott<br />Evelyn Young<br />Dub Taylor | narrator = | music = | cinematography = George Meehan | editing = Al Clark | studio = Columbia Pictures | released = {{Film date|1940|9|30|''US''|ref1=<ref name=AFI>{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=989 | title=Prairie Schooners: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= August 27, 2017 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828014354/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=989 | url-status=live | archivedate=August 28, 2017}}</ref>}} | runtime = 58 minutes | country = United States | language = English }}
'''''Prairie Schooners''''' is a 1940 American Western film directed by Sam Nelson, and stars Wild Bill Elliott, Evelyn Young, and Dub Taylor. It is the first in Columbia Pictures' series of 12 "Wild Bill Hickok" films, followed by ''Beyond the Sacramento''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Blottner |first1=Gene |title=Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926–1955: The Harry Cohn Years |date=2011 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786486724 |chapter=Wild Bill Hickok }}</ref>
==Plot== {{no plot|date=December 2023}}
==Cast== * Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok * Evelyn Young as Virginia Benton<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/prairie-schooners-v106498/review|title=Prairie Schooners (1940) - Sam Nelson | Review | AllMovie}}</ref> * Dub Taylor as Cannonball * Kenneth Harlan as Dalton Stull * Ray Teal as Wolf Tanner * Bob Burns as Jim Gibbs * Netta Packer as Cora Gibbs * Richard Fiske as Adams * Edmund Cobb as Rusty * Jim Thorpe as Chief Sanche
==Film series== ''Prairie Schooners'' is the first film in Columbia's series of 12 "Wild Bill Hickok" movies. They include:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Blottner |first1=Gene |title=Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926–1955: The Harry Cohn Years |date=2011 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786486724 |chapter=Wild Bill Hickok }}</ref> # ''Prairie Schooners'' (Sept 1940) # ''Beyond the Sacramento'' (Nov 1940) # ''The Wildcat of Tucson'' (Dec 1940) # ''Across the Sierras'' (Feb 1941) # ''North from the Lone Star'' (March 1941) # ''Hands Across the Rockies'' (June 1941) # ''King of Dodge City'' (Aug 1941) # ''Roaring Frontiers'' (Oct 1941) # ''The Lone Star Vigilantes'' (Jan 1942) # ''Bullets for Bandits'' (Feb 1942) # ''The Devil's Trail'' (May 1942) # ''Prairie Gunsmoke'' (July 1942)
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0032940}} * {{TCMDb title|87032}} * {{AFI film|989}}
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Category:1940 Western (genre) films Category:1940 films Category:American Western (genre) films Category:Films directed by Sam Nelson Category:American black-and-white films Category:Cultural depictions of Wild Bill Hickok Category:1940 American films Category:1940 English-language films Category:English-language Western (genre) films
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