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The red wolf (Canis lupus rufus, formerly Canis rufus) is a North American canid which once roamed throughout the Southeastern United States. Based on fossil and archaeological evidence, the original red wolf range extended throughout the Southeast, from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, north to the Ohio River Valley and central Pennsylvania, and west to central Texas and southeastern Missouri. Historical habitats included forests, swamps, and coastal prairies, where it was an apex predator. The red wolf being morphologically midway between grey wolves and coyotes, recent genetic research indicate it may actually be a hybrid species. The red wolf became extinct in the wild by 1980. 1987 saw a reintroduction in northeastern North Carolina through a captive breeding program and the animals are considered to be successfully breeding in the wild.
The red wolf stands about 66–79 cm (26–31 in) at the shoulder. The total length is 111–165 cm (44–65 in) including a tail of 30–43 cm (12–17 in). The body weight can range from 16 to 41 kg (35 to 90 lb) but averages at about 24.5 kg (54 lb). Male red wolves are approximately 10% larger than females. Coat long, coarse; mostly brown and buff colored on the upper part of the body with some black along the backs. Muzzle long; nose pad wide and black; ears rufous; legs long; tail long, bushy, black tipped. Body is intermediate in size between the gray wolf (Canis lupus) and the coyote (Canis latrans)
Dark horse is a term used to describe a little-known person or thing that emerges to prominence, especially in a competition of some sort or a contestant that seems unlikely to succeed.
The term began as horse racing parlance. A dark horse is a race horse that is not known to gamblers and thus is difficult to place betting odds on.
The earliest-known use of the phrase is in Benjamin Disraeli's novel The Young Duke (1831). Disraeli's protagonist, the Duke of St. James, attends a horse race with a surprise finish: "A dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph."
The term has been used politically in such countries as Peru, Philippines and United States.
Politically, the term reached America in the nineteenth century when it was first applied to James K. Polk, a relatively unknown Tennessee Democrat who won the Democratic Party's 1844 presidential nomination over a host of better-known candidates. Polk won the nomination on the ninth ballot, and went on to win the presidential election.
Actors: Michael Worth (actor), Raffaello Degruttola (actor), Dave Thrasher (editor), Scott Harpt (actor), Crispian Belfrage (actor), Karen Walsh (miscellaneous crew), Michael Blake (miscellaneous crew), Jason Buss (miscellaneous crew), Dan Davies (actor), Dan Davies (writer), Sadie Kaye (actress), Nathaniel F. Haban (actor), Jody Marriott Bar-Lev (director), Jody Marriott Bar-Lev (writer), Jody Marriott Bar-Lev (producer),
Plot: Nine years after the Massacre of Wounded Knee, the Lakota people on Pine Ridge Reservation are on a precipice. Set amongst the stunning and unique beauty of the Badlands, West of Thunder sees a complex character, Henry Seed, arrive in a South Dakota town on the outskirts of the newly created reservation. When eerie and inexplicable events, closely akin to the horrors that had been visited upon the Lakota people in recent years, begin to occur in the western town, everything seems to point to the newest resident, Henry Seed. Questions abound as to whether Seed is some sort of supernatural demon seeking retribution and revenge or if there is a more simple explanation for each of the occurrences. While Seed's arrival may seem to have provided an opportunity for revenge for the Lakota, the respected Lakota spiritual leader, Little Thunder, has a more far-seeing response. As the Lakota people face and adapt to their new circumstances, Little Thunder envisions the consequences of taking the path of revenge or maintaining the integrity of their inclusive traditional values and the interconnected circles of all mankind.
Keywords: alcohol, badlands, buffalo, charlatan, drums, elixir, evil, fistfight, friendship, gunfightActors: Ying Liang (actor), Ying Liang (actor), Yuting Deng (actor), Yuting Deng (actor), Na Zhao (actress), Sung Pong Choo (director), Liqing Zu (actress), Quansheng Gao (actor), Weitong Xie (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy,Actors: Clancy Cooper (actor), Julie Harris (costume designer), Larry Taylor (actor), Bruce Cabot (actor), Robert Morley (actor), Kenneth More (actor), Jayne Mansfield (actress), Steven Berkoff (actor), Charles Farrell (actor), David Horne (actor), Henry Hull (actor), Charles Irwin (actor), Sid James (actor), John Shirley (editor), Raoul Walsh (director),
Plot: A proper English gentleman, traveling in the American West, inadvertently stops an Indian attack on the stagecoach in which he is a passenger. When the stage gets to the nearest town, the raucous Fractured Jaw--which is being plagued by unruly cowbys, bandits and marauding Indians--the story spreads, and he is appointed sheriff.
Keywords: englishman, gun-salesman, gunsmith, hired-gunman, hot-romance, inventor, lawless-town, native-american, native-american-chief, peace-pipeActors: Bernard B. Ray (miscellaneous crew), Budd Buster (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Harry S. Webb (producer), Carl Krusada (writer), Harry S. Webb (director), Frederick Bain (editor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Art Dillard (actor), Earl Dwire (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), William Gould (actor), Herman Hack (actor), George Hazel (actor), Starlight the Horse (actor),
Plot: A friendly Indian, Red Wolf is entrusted by a dying settler, killed by white renegades, to take his baby boy. When the boy is five, Red Wolf turns him over to Frank Clark, the Wolfville Indian Agent, to make certain he will be with his own race and receive a white man's education. The boy, Jack Jennings grows up and is given a commission as Inspector of the Indian Agency, and is in love with Clark's daughter, Mary. He is kept busy fighting the outlaws who are stealing furs from his Indian friends. The gang leader, Al Pierce, has a fight with saloon owner Butch Weldon, organizer and brains behind the fur-theft gang, over the favors of dance hall queen Peggy Packard, and Al threatens to reveal the gang's entire operation to Jack unless Butch keeps away from Peggy. Killing two birds with one stone, Butch kills Al and frames Jack for the murder. Jack is jailed. Jack escapes when the revenge-seeking Peggy shoots at him and misses as he is being taken to the County Seat to get away from a Weldon-led lynch mob. Jack returns, disguised as an Indian who hates Red Wolf, and involves Weldon in a fur robbery scheme in order to trap him and clear his own name. A posse is riding after the tricked fur thieves, with Peggy in the lead intent on shooting Jack, who she still thinks killed her lover. Red Wolf, making Weldon think he is trying to help him escape, talks him into changing clothes with Jack.
Keywords: 1880s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, adopted-son, american-indian, animal-in-title, archive-footage, b-movie, baby, bartender, cabinActors: Dorothy Appleby (actress), Clarence Kolster (editor), Fred Myton (writer), Charles Le Moyne (actor), Wallace MacDonald (actor), Art Mix (actor), Harry Semels (actor), William Janney (actor), Ford West (actor), Rex the Wonder Horse (actor), Earl Haley (writer), Earl Haley (director), Lady the Horse (actress), Marquis the Horse (actor),
Genres: Western,