''Tracked by Bloodhounds; or, A Lynching at Cripple Creek'' is a 1904 silent

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directed by Harry Buckwalter.

Plot

The film is set at a gold mining camp in

Cripple Creek, Colorado Cripple Creek is a statutory city that is the county seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 1,155 at the 2020 United States Census. Cripple Creek is a former gold mining camp located southwest of Colorado Sprin ...

where it was filmed. It begins as a man knocks on the door of a miner's cabin on Bennett Avenue. A kind and generous woman answers and offers the man food. He demands money and kills the woman after she refuses. The tramp searches the cabin and hides when he hears the woman's daughter approach. The tramp escapes before the husband of the woman returns and finds his murdered wife. The husband enlists the help of his neighbors who also bring bloodhounds. The hounds are given the scent of the tramp's hat that he left behind and they begin tracking him. The tramp resting under a tree hears the dogs approaching and escapes to the woods. A chase ensues through the forest and the posse fires at the tramp as they get closer. After crossing a small stream across a fallen tree one of the pursuers tackles the tramp to the ground and they roll down a mountainside. The tramp briefly escapes only to be trapped on a bridge crossing a deep ravine. The tramp shoots one of the pursuers and leaps off the bridge. He lands in the water and is met by another pursuer. The two fight until the other men arrive. The tramp is caught and brought to shore, where a rope is placed around his neck. The captured tramp is taken up a hill and to a tree. The rope is thrown over a limb of a tree, where the tramp is hung as the mob fires in the air. The final scene is a closeup of the bloodhounds and their handler. The film runs over four minutes long and consists of 12 scenes.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tracked by Bloodhounds or, A Lynching at Cripple Creek 1904 films 1900s crime films American crime films American silent short films American black-and-white films Films set in Colorado Selig Polyscope Company films Films directed by Harry Buckwalter 1900s American films