In Old Montana

This film received its earliest documented telecasts in Washington DC Wednesday 28 January 1948 on WMAL (Channel 7), in Cincinnati Wednesday 3 March 1948 on WLW-T (Channel 4), in Buffalo Saturday 24 July 1948 on WBEN (Channel 4), in New York City Thursday 7 October 1948 on WATV (Channel 13), and in Salt Lake City Monday 15 August 1949 on KDYL (Channel 4).

Opening credits prologue: When the links in the chain of States that made up the great United States were forged, there were many conflicts, dramatic and spectacular, that often threatened the prosperity of the frontier and the economic structure of the whole nation.

Such was the war that broke out in Montana in 1880 between the cattle barons and the sheep-herders. The cattlemen had priority and also claimed sheep polluted the land and streams, cropping the grass so short the grazing land was ruined for years. The sheepmen claimed that raising sheep was more profitable and that "the spread" was Government land and they had as much right to it as anyone else.

The series of events chronicled here took place in the Lobo Valley just below the fertile grazing lands of the Powder River Basin.

Although frankly a Western story, with fictitious characters, each one originally had its counterpart in fact.