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"YOUNG...like the WEST and as VIOLENT and UNTAMED!"
Travails of a family heading West in a covered wagon.
"YOUNG...like the WEST and as VIOLENT and UNTAMED!"
Travails of a family heading West in a covered wagon.
Will Rogers Jr.
Judge Copeland
Maureen O'Sullivan
Emma Breslin
Rod McKuen
Dirk Breslin
Casey Tibbs
Rusty
Judi Meredith
Callie Bascomb (as Judy Meredith)
Troy Donahue
Jesse Bascomb
George Winslow
Talbot Breslin
Gigi Perreau
Missouri Breslin
Gary Gray
Hugh Breslin
Travails of a family heading West in a covered wagon.
When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle into the American West. They enlist Sam "Bulldog" Burnett in their efforts to transport their lone bull, a Hereford named Vindicator, to a breeder in Texas, but the trail is fraught with danger and even Burnett doubts the survival potential of this "rare breed" of cattle.
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges on the journey.