I was used to seeing him as a bad guy, so this was a fun turnaround. Bob Kortman was the sharp and wise gunslinger, Trigger. Although Yaconelli's guitar playing was for show rather than accompaniment during Shelley's songs, it was nice to see that he really was a musician as opposed to an actor faking playing a guitar. George Shelley, as Dude, got to court the girl and do all the singing.

Frank Yaconelli was perfect as the comical yet serious Mexican comrade, Mike. Brown's deep voice made him a natural leading man. He was taller than most of the people around him, and he was always the best dressed. Johnny Mack Brown looked every bit the part of a 30's western hero in his role as Kentucky. Instead of a trio we get four cowboys plus a strong willed rancher fighting the bad guys. The bad guys' search for the location of the platinum and Kentucky Wade's determination to stop them are the reasons for this adventure. Something that makes the plot different from other westerns is that a man finds a platinum mine rather than a gold mine. There were no boring chapters in this story driven serial.

Too often a serial can be described as 'they fight over here, then they fight over there, and then they fight over here again.' In Wild West Days there are several times where the action takes place in the same locations, but the plot is well served by the repetition. Every chapter was filled with plenty of action and plot twists. I watched Wild West Days over a period of about two weeks.

Wild West Days by David C. King