He wanted to produce inexpensive Westerns starring former rodeo rider Jack Hoxie beginning with Barb Wire (1922).

Kenneth MacDonald, whom Xydias chose from the ranks of supporting players, did not fill the bill and was quickly replaced by J.

Xydias then turned his attention to saluting the country that had received him so warmly by producing a series of historical melodramas featuring heroes from America's past.

In short order, Sunset released With Kit Carson Over the Great Divide (1925), With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail (1926), Daniel Boone Through the Wilderness (1926), Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo (1926), General Custer at the Little Big Horn (1926), and finally, Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre (1927).

[1] Retired from the movie business following the less than spectacular reception of Heroes of the Alamo, Xydias was caught behind enemy lines while visiting the Philippines in 1941.