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Referring to Lola the Squaw as "you damn half-breed," villainous Al Bridge provides a startling moment in this otherwise overly talky early sound Western. The wagon train scenes and a buffalo stampede are both courtesy of stock footage from the 1925 Tumbleweeds, and William S. Hart can be glimpsed riding hell-bent-for-leather on his steed, Brownie. Not that Tom Tyler doesn't make a handsome and striking cowboy hero in his own right, but the producer pinched every penny and The Forty-Niners survives as a rather tedious affair. Executive producer John R. Freuler grandly announced a forthcoming series of Tyler Westerns but only three more were released before Monarch Productions bit the Hollywood dust.