Stories featuring unjust accusations of cowardice were a staple of 101 Bison Westerns. The Garrison Triangle is a typical example, with its story of a cavalry officer dishonourably discharged when unjustly accused of cowardice. He then restores his name and honour, and wins back his sweetheart, when saving his old regiment from Indian attack. A typically vigorous Western from the company that was largely responsible (together with D.W. Griffith at Biograph) for establishing the genre in American cinema. The Garrison Triangle was originally held in the BFI National Archive as two separate, unidentified films. Identified in 2007 as being two parts of the one film, the prints were combined in that same year, incorporating a few seconds of black spacing between the two so as to indicate where footage may be missing. While this print is missing a main title, it was identified as The Garrison Triangle from a synopsis found in an issue of the British trade journal “Bioscope” (23 January 1913).

John Oliver