The Oklahoma Land Rush.
.]]> Without the farm they had hoped to start, Yancey and his wife, Sabra (Irene Dunne--I Remember Mama, The Awful Truth, Love Affair), take over the local newspaper after the editor is assassinated. Cimarron (DVD Special Edition) - DVD [ 1931 ] But as the newspaper helps bring order to a lawless land, Yancey feels the wanderlust to find new frontiers and new adventures, and Sabra stays to build a publishing empire. Cimarron (1931) (DVD)This Academy Award-winning adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel traces the lives of two people who are in love with each other--but in love with life even more--as they struggle to bring civilization to the Western frontier in Cimarron! As thousands of would-be settlers race across a barren desert to be the first to stake their claim to a plot of land, Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix) is cheated out of his property by Dixie Lee (Estelle Taylor).