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, is saved by an Indian girl.

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, hearing that China's about to ban the export of rice, proceeds to corner the rice market.