Wagon Wheels Westward(1945)
RIDE the ADVENTURE TRAIL WITH RED RYDER...the fast-shootin', hard-ridin' hero of millions
In this western, Red Ryder leads a wagon train of homesteaders into a ghost town and discovers that it has become an outlaw's hideout.
Movie: Wagon Wheels Westward
Top 10 Billed Cast
Red Ryder (as Wild Bill Elliott)
Little Beaver (as Bobby Blake)
Martha 'The Duchess' Wentworth
Arlie Adams
Dave McKean Posing as John Larkin
Pop Dale
Henchman Tuttle
Bob Adams
Lunsford
Fake Sheriff Jeff Brown
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