The Covered Wagon, directed by James Cruze and starring J. Warren Kerrigan, was released. It proved one of the great epics of the silent Western. The following is from Wikipedia:
The Covered Wagon (1923 film) is a American silent short Western film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a novel by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers traveling through the old West from Kansas to Oregon. J. Warren Kerrigan starred as Will Banion and Lois Wilson as Molly Wingate. The film premiered in New York City on 16 March 1923 and ran 98 minutes, but the feature film was edited down into 23 minutes and become a short film by viewers today. Some sources say that all or part of this film had talking sequnces and a music track recorded in the short-lived DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, but if so, was only shown this way at the premiere at the Rivoli Theater in NYC.
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