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- The Covered Wagon
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- (MARCH 24, 1923)
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- The Covered Wagon. The publicity experts have been making
- themselves objectionable about this picture for some time. They
- have proclaimed it in loud and raucous tones as something like
- nothing else in heaven or on earth. Now the picture is here and
- there is no come-back. The publicity was all understatement. It
- is a masterpiece of restraint, of realism, of power. In it are
- crystallized the rigors and magnificences of the pioneers who
- wound slowly over the 2,000 miles of the Oregon Trail in '48,
- daring perils of Indians and starvation and rushing rivers.
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