Bison Film Company

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Bison Film Company, also known as 101 Bison Film Company, was an American film studio established in 1909 and disestablished in 1917.

Bison Film Company
Company type
Film studio
IndustryEntertainment
Founded1909; 117 years ago (1909)
Defunct1917; 109 years ago (1917)
FateTransferred to Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Headquarters
Los Angeles
Key people
Fred Balshofer

It partnered with Miller Brothers 101 Ranch to lease 20,000 acres to build a Western town set and an Indian village and make silent films with stars including Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Hoot Gibson and Will Rogers.[1] It produced The Indian Massacre (1912), by Thomas H. Ince.[2]

In 1912 it also produced The Indian Raiders,[3] Early Days in the West,[4] Hunted Down,[4] A Daughter of the Redskins,[4] The Cowboy Guardians,[4] The Tribal Law,[4] An Indian Outcast; in 1913 it produced In Love and War,[5] Woman and War;[5] and in 1915 Lone Larry, starring Kingsley Benedict.[6]

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1909

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1911

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1912

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1913

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1914

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