The Post Telegrapher

The Post Telegrapher

25 mins | Western | April 30, 1912

Bob Evans, a telegraph operator, together with a group of soldiers gets ambushed by Sioux Indians. Wounded, he climbs into a telegraph pole and asks through the telegraph wires for help from the fort. Bob's fiancée Edith comes along with the soldiers. The soldiers find only dead bodies and decide to chase the Indians. Edith stays behind to search for Bob. She finds him and together they return to the fort. The Sioux then attack the fort, but when the situation seems hopeless, the army returns and the Indians are expelled.

The Post Telegrapher

25 mins | Western | April 30, 1912

The Post Telegrapher
Bob Evans, a telegraph operator, together with a group of soldiers gets ambushed by Sioux Indians. Wounded, he climbs into a telegraph pole and asks through the telegraph wires for help from the fort. Bob's fiancée Edith comes along with the soldiers. The soldiers find only dead bodies and decide to chase the Indians. Edith stays behind to search for Bob. She finds him and together they return to the fort. The Sioux then attack the fort, but when the situation seems hopeless, the army returns and the Indians are expelled.
Producers New York Motion Picture, Bison Motion Pictures
Original title The Post Telegrapher
Directors Thomas H. Ince, Francis Ford
Writers

Cast

Francis Ford

as Bob Evans - the Post Telegrapher

Ann Little

as Eva Reynolds - the Colonel's Daughter

Ray Myers

as The Second Telegrapher

Lillian Christy

as The Settler's Daughter