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Lucien Littlefield, Hart & ]as. Gordon in TUMBLEWEEDS

Stories (1919); Told Under a White eyesight began to fail. He wrote his
Oak T ree (1922); A Lighter of Flames friend and longtime admirer G. W.
(1923); The Order of Chanta S11tas Dunston : "At times I can scarcely see
(1925); Hoo/beats (1933); The Law at all." His end came in a Los
on Horseback (1935); And All Points Angeles hospital on June 23, 1946.
West (1940). His sister Mary col- He was buried in Greenwood Ceme-
laborated on several of them. tery, Brooklyn, alongside his father,
Hart planned to return to the mother, two sisters, and the baby
screen on at least two occasions. Hal brother who had first been buried in
Roach proposed a picture patterned Dakota.
after Wagon T racks, in the early William S. Hart left an estate of
'30s, and Hart agreed to do a Peter B. $1,170,000. He made bequests to sev-
Kyne story at RKO with Hillyer. eral social welfare societies, but the
Both failed to materialize. In April, bulk of it he gave to Los Angeles
1939, Astor Pictures re-issued Tumble- County, with the provision that his
u·eeds with a new sound track and ranch be a public park and his home
an 8-minute prologue in which Hart a museum for the Westiana he had
bade his public farewell. collected. His son unsuccessfully con-
Four years later his sister Mary, tested the will.
with whom he had been very close, Hart's ranch is not yet open to the
died from automobile injuries sus- public. A vast deposit of oil is said
tained some years before. And Hart's to be beneath it.