Death Valley Days

The story of Lt. Jessie Lee Reno, for whom the city of Reno was named.

A Spanish family claims ownership of a piece of land, but they don't have the deed.

Two prospectors discover a fabulous diamond mine but greed interferes with their plans.

A homely miner tries to win a pretty girl's heart.

A counterfeiter making a getaway joins a wagon train of Mormons headed to Salt Lake City.

Culture comes to a mining town with the arrival of a piano, but the problem is finding someone who can play it.

A man sells snow to pioneers in Sacramento, Calif.

A noted prosecutor faces a young associate defending a man accused of murder.

A detective disguises himself as a Mexican to clear himself of a robbery charge.

Abe Curry wants to make a difference in Carson City but takes reckless chances with his money.

A crusading reporter investigates an Arizona land baron.

In a Nevada mining town, a woman dealing with a sick son and a broke husband longs to move back East, but an Army major helps change her mind.

A prospector, double-crossed by his partner and left to die in the desert, finds salvation in an Indian girl named Lupin who puts a curse on his would-be killer.

Meek Stubby Weeks and brawny Dutch Hogan compete for the same girl.

An escaped killer holds hostage Harry and Evelyn Nelson, a couple on the verge of divorce.

An Army private tries to save an emaciated racehorse about to be destroyed.

When a number of grifters show up at a wealthy man's family reunion, he sees through their aliases and shows them the error of their ways by treating them like true relatives.

A man of the cloth finds it difficult to adjust to life in a rugged desert town.

A newlywed on his honeymoon falls for a phony gold-mine swindle.

A Congressional candidate is encouraged to go to the Chicago World's Fair as the man with the longest beard in the world.

A San Francisco merchant works to corner the market on rice when he hears that China's about to ban the export of the staple.