A Yankee from the West

A Yankee from the West

Drama, Romance, Western | Aug. 19, 1915

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.

A Yankee from the West

Drama, Romance, Western | Aug. 19, 1915

A Yankee from the West
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.
Producers Majestic Motion Picture Company
Original title A Yankee from the West
Directors George Siegmann
Writers Mary H. O'Connor, Opie Read

Cast

Wallace Reid

as Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the Mud

Seena Owen

as Gunhild, a Norwegian Girl

Tom Wilson

as Jim Dorsey, Milford's Pal

Josephine Crowell

as Mrs. Stuvic, an Illinois Matron

Chris Lynton

as Professor Emerson

William H. Brown

as Jan Hagnerg, Gunhild's Uncle

Al W. Filson

as Whitney Mills, R.R. Superintendent

George Siegmann

as Sheriff Dick

Fred Gamble

as The Railroad Superintendent