the trail of the lonesome pine adaptations

#THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE ADAPTATIONS MOVIE#

#THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE ADAPTATIONS MOVIE#

The following 'preview'regarding QUEEN OF THE YUKON from a 1939 publication promoting upcoming 1940 movie releases sounds like it was written by one of Monogram's publicists. Cedar Lake has been and probably continues to be a Christian summer camp that includes cabins and other facilities. In a contemporary color photos taken from across the lake the Western elevation of the mill and another view taken from the South it appears that the building has been completely rebuilt along the same lines but of upgraded construction and may serve as a social center or restaurant these days.

I bought a jumbo postcard of this mill on Cedar Lake during summer vacation from high school in nearby Lake Arrowhead and I built a good sized wooden scale model of the mill but I my only reference was an Eastern elevation so I had to imagine how the other 3 sides looked. The rustic mill on the right (designated as the 'White River Trading Post' for this movie, was built for the 1936 Technicolor spectacular THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE, a romance set during a feud in the mountains of Kentucky. Have included files of the mill and the lake and the prop boat when it was renamed ARCTIC QUEEN. Have not yet found out how long the this mock-up of a steamboat was located on the lake and whether it sank, was scrapped or moved to Big Bear Lake to serve in some other capacity. The 'prop' sternwheeler (that I have somewhere in a profile image on a 1940 lobby card for this movie) later served in at least one other movie, very likely one of the nine Royal Canadian Mounted Police hero 'Sergeant Preston of the Yukon' adventures in which it was renamed the ARCTIC QUEEN. Cedar Lake served as a location in a great many Hollywood movies, most famously in HIGH SIERRA with Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino in 1941. This 8 x 10 movie still of a prop steamboat built by Monogram Studio for a Far North gold rush story on the Yukon River came from an eBay dealer in the Netherlands and provides a nice high angle image of the studio built QUEEN OF THE YUKON at 'White River Landing' in the northwest corner of man-made Cedar Lake in the San Bernadino Mountains near Big Bear Lake. Queen of the Yukon 1940 'prop' steamboat on Cedar Lake San Bernadino Moutains

The trail of the lonesome pine adaptations