title: The Oregon Trail (1939 serial)
text: # The Oregon Trail (1939 serial)
  
  The Oregon Trail is a 1939 American Western film serial starring Johnny Mack Brown and released by Universal Pictures.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan, the representative of an eastern syndicate, has full control of the fur trade. Morgan sends his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the latest wagon train in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Johnny Mack Brown as Jeff Scott, in the last of four serials Brown made for Universal.
  * Louise Stanley as Margaret Mason
  * Fuzzy Knight as Deadwood Hawkins, Scott's sidekick
  * Bill Cody, Jr. as Jimmie Clark
  * Edward LeSaint as John Mason
  * James Blaine as Sam Morgan, villain
  * Charles Stevens as "Breed"
  * Jack C. Smith as Bull Bragg, Sam Morgan's main henchman
  * Roy Barcroft as Colonel Custer
  * Charles Murphy as Tompkins
  * Colin Kenny as Slade, a henchman
  * Forrest Taylor as Daggett, a henchman
  * Jim Toney as Idaho Ike
  
  ## Production
  
  ### Stunts
  
  * Yakima Canutt (archive footage)
  * Cliff Lyons
  * Tom Steele
  
  ## Chapter titles
  
  * The Renegade's Revenge
  * The Flaming Forest
  * The Brink of Disaster
  * Thundering Doom
  * The Stampede
  * Indian Vengeance
  * Trail of Treachery
  * Redskin Revenge
  * The Avalanche of Doom
  * The Plunge of Peril
  * Trapped in the Flames
  * The Baited Trap
  * Crashing Timbers
  * Death in the Night
  * Trail's End
  
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