DENVER AND RIO GRANDE

Original British 11 inch x 8 1/2 inch Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1952 Byron Haskin Western DENVER AND RIO GRANDE, from a story by Frank Gruber and starring Edmond O’Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers, Lyle Bettger, J. Carrol Naish, Zasu Pitts, Tom Powers, Robert Barrat, Paul Fix, Don Haggerty and James Burke.

The film’s storyline is a fictional account based on two factual right-of-way struggles in 1878-1879 between the D&RG and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: across the Raton Pass from Trinidad, Colorado to Raton, New Mexico, where an armed confrontation actually took place, and the “Royal Gorge War” over a route between Cañon City and Leadville, Colorado.

The Advertisement is in very good condition.