''In the Days of Buffalo Bill'' is a 1922 American silent

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directed by

Edward Laemmle Edward Laemmle (October 25, 1887 – April 2, 1937) was an American film director of the silent era. He directed more than 60 films between 1920 and 1935. Biography Edward Laemmle was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in Los Angeles. He w ...

. The film, which consisted of 18 episodes, is currently classified as

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Art Acord Arthemus Ward "Art" Acord (April 17, 1890 – January 4, 1931) was an American silent film actor and rodeo champion. After his film career ended in 1929, Acord worked in rodeo road shows and as a miner in Mexico. Early life and career Acord ...

as Art Taylor *

Duke R. Lee Duke R. Lee (May 13, 1881 – April 1, 1959) was an American actor. Lee's career began when he performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and he later played Buffalo Bill on film. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1913 and 1946. I ...

Buffalo Bill Cody William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846January 10, 1917), known as "Buffalo Bill", was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in ...

* George A. Williams as Calvert Carter *

Jay Morley Jay Morley (July 14, 1890 – November 9, 1976), was an American actor, active in silent films. Career Morley began his acting career in a traveling vaudeville act and performed in dramas with stock theater companies for five years. He had suc ...

as Lambert Ashley * Otto Nelson as Alden Carter *

Pat Harmon Plummer Hull Harman (February 3, 1886 – November 26, 1958), known professionally as Pat Harmon, was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1920 and 1947. In 1935, Harmon was the victim of a violent assault whic ...

as Gaspard * Jim Corey as Quantrell * Burton Law as Allen Pinkerton (as Burton C. Law) *

William De Vaull William De Vaull (December 12, 1870 – June 4, 1945) - also credited as William P. DeVaull - was an American film actor. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1915 to 1927. Filmography References External links * 1870 births ...

Edwin M. Stanton Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814December 24, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War. Stanton's management helped organize ...

(as William P. Devaull) * Joel Day as

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...

Lincoln and Grant are each played by two actors. * J. Herbert Frank as

Clark Comstock Clark Comstock (1862–1934) was an American film actor of the silent and early sound era. He appeared in around 50 films and serials between 1915 and 1930, many of them westerns.Katchmer p.69 Selected filmography * ''The Westerners'' (1919) * ...

as Thomas C. Durant * Charles Colby as

William H. Seward William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator. A determined oppon ...

* Joseph Hazelton as

Gideon Welles Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802 – February 11, 1878), nicknamed "Father Neptune", was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, a cabinet post he was awarded after supporting Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election. Although opposed ...

(as Joe Hazleton) * John W. Morris as Gen. U. S. Grant * Lafe McKee as Gen. Robert E. Lee (as Lafayette McKee) * G.B. Philips as Montgomery Blair * Tex Driscoll as Gen. U.S. Grant (as John W. Morris) *

Harry Myers Harry C. Myers (September 5, 1882 – December 25, 1938) was an American film actor and director, sometimes credited as Henry Myers. He performed in many short comedy films with his wife Rosemary Theby. Myers appeared in 330 films between 1908 ...

as Andrew Johnson (as Henry Myers) *

Ruth Royce Ruth Royce (February 6, 1893 – May 7, 1971) was an American vaudeville performer and silent film actress from Versailles, Missouri. Career Royce appeared in the serial, ''The Vanishing Dagger'' (1920), which starred Eddie Polo and C. Norman Ham ...

as Aimee Lenard * Chief Lightheart as Sitting Bull * William Knight as Jack Casement * Elsie Greeson as Louise Frederici *

Buck Connors Buck Connors (November 22, 1880 – February 4, 1947) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1912 and 1941. He is the son of William L Conner and Leah Bowen. He was born in Streator, La Salle County, Illinois,Ariz ...

as Hank Tabor *

Millard K. Wilson Millard K. Wilson (May 5, 1890 – October 5, 1933) was an American actor of the silent film era. He appeared in 94 films between 1914 and 1930, co-starring with Lon Chaney Sr. in some of them. Chaney and Wilson were life-long friends.Blake, ...

as Tim O'Mara (as M.K. Wilson) * William F. Moran as

John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the prominent 19th-century Booth ...

(as William Moran) * Silver Tip Baker as Gen. Grenville M. Dodge (as Silvertip Baker) * Charles Newton as Maj. North * Alfred Hollingsworth as Chief Justice Chase * Lester Cuneo * Marion Feducha as Andrew Johnson as a boy * Helen Farnum (uncredited) * Joe Miller (uncredited) * Dorothy Wood (uncredited)

Litigation over name "Buffalo Bill"

The corporation founded by William F. Cody, the actual Buffalo Bill, and two partners in 1913, which made a film of his wild west exploits, ''The Adventures of Buffalo Bill'' (1917), brought a suit in federal court in Colorado seeking an injunction to prevent the 1922 film serial from using the name "Buffalo Bill" and his likeness in any advertising. Applying the law of unfair competition, the court dismissed the suit noting that the name, which at best had only a common law

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, had acquired a secondary meaning regarding the American West which had lost its exclusivity from being used in several plays without challenge, and that the theater-going public could readily distinguish between the films.

Chapter titles

# Bonds of Steel # In the Enemy's Hands # The Spy # The Sword of Grant and Lee # The Man of the Ages # Prisoners of the Sioux # Shackles of Fate # The Last Shot # From Tailor to President # Empire Builders # Perils of the Plains # The Hand of Justice # Trails of Peril # The Scarlet Doom # Men of Steel # The Brink of Eternity # A Race to the Finish # Driving the Golden Spike

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''In the Days of Buffalo Bill''
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Litigation over name "Buffalo Bill"

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