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The Prairie

6.0 65 mins Romance   Adventure   Action   Western   1947
Edward F. Finney Productions  
Director(s): Frank Wisbar

The Prairie is set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Hoping to find their destiny in the new territory, the Bush Family heads southward in a covered wagon. Sharing the family's numerous dangers and hardships are Ellen Wade (Lenore Aubert), sole survivor of an Indian attack, and army mapmaker Paul Hover (Alan Baxter). Cousins Abiram (Russ Vincent) and Asa (Jack Mitchum) duke it out over Ellen's affections

Casts of The Prairie

Lenore Aubert

as Ellen Wade

Alan Baxter

as Paul Hover

Russ Vincent

as Abiram White

John Mitchum

as Asa Bush

Charles Evans

as Ishmael Bush

Edna Holland

as Esther Bush

Chief Thundercloud

as Eagle Feather

Fred Coby

as Abner Bush

William Murphy

as Jess Bush

David Gerber

as Gabe Bush

Don Lynch

as Enoch Bush

George Morrell

as Luke

Chief Yowlachie

as Matoreeh

Jay Silverheels

as Running Deer

Kara Beth Taylor

as Anne Morris

Frank Hemingway

as Narrator

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