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Six-Gun Trail

1938 film by Sam Newfield

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ7532581 ↗
Source-derived summary

Six-Gun Trail is a 1938 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield.

Plot

Chasing jewel thieves, Captain Carson and Magpie head for the border, where Carson, posing as a Chinaman, opens a store that buys jewelry. To flush the thieves into the open, Carson wins all their money at poker. They agree to sell him the jewels, but plan to kill him and keep both the jewels and the money.

Cast

Tim McCoy as Capt.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Six-Gun Trail” as 1938 film by Sam Newfield. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Six-Gun, Trail and film.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Six-Gun, Trail and film providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Six-Gun Trail”, the useful work is to connect “1938 film by Sam Newfield” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7532581. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Six-Gun Trail”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Six-Gun Trail primary sources, Six-Gun Trail archive and Six-Gun research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Six-Gun Trail”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Six-Gun Trail” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.