Fort Osage (film)

Fort Osage is a 1952 American Cinecolor Western film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Rod Cameron, Jane Nigh and Morris Ankrum. The film takes its name from the historical Fort Osage.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Dave Milton.

Plot
Fort Osage based Arthur Pickett and George Keane are living high off the hog charging exorbitant fees for wagons waiting to travel westward to California. The final wagon train of the year is awaiting its experienced wagon master Tom Clay. Clay witnesses an Osage Indian attack on a lone wagon and warns Pickett and Keane that no wagons can leave as long as the Indians are on the warpath. Clay wonders what drove the once peaceful Osage to attacks, but Pickett isn't Keane for Clay to discover the reasons.

Cast

 * Rod Cameron as Tom Clay
 * Jane Nigh as Ann Pickett
 * Morris Ankrum as Arthur Pickett
 * Douglas Kennedy as George Keane
 * John Ridgely as Henry Travers
 * William Phipps as Nathan Goodspeed
 * Myron Healey as Martin Christensen
 * I. Stanford Jolley as Sam Winfield
 * Lane Bradford as Henchman Rawlins
 * Dorothy Adams as Mrs. Winfield
 * Iron Eyes Cody as Osage Brave - Blue Shirt
 * Francis McDonald as Osage Chief
 * Barbara Woodell as Martha Whitley