The Covered Wagon - DVD

Two great caravans of covered wagons filled with pioneers -- one led by young Will Bannion, the other by crusty old Jesse Wingate -- push off from Westport Landing (now Kansas City.) The year is 1848, and their destination is faraway Oregon. Wingate's young daughter Molly is fascinated by the dashing Bannion, infuriating Sam Woodhull, her brutish fiancee. Woodhull lies to Wingate and tells him that Banion was drummed out of the army for

Pioneers head across the plains to Prairieville, where they plan to settle. Local Cattlemen's Association president, J. P. Allen, stirs up anti-homesteader sentiment among the ranchers and sends a gunman to infiltrate the wagon train and poison the horses. When young settler Ed Cameron travels ahead to secure new stock from his older brother, Jack, he is ambushed and murdered by Allen's men. Jack loads his pistols and rides out, determi

The rivers are wide and rapid. The desert is vast and unforgiving. And when the trail turns craggy, men use pickaxes to dig grooves for the wagon wheels. Mother Nature can be overcome, but human nature remains deadly and unpredictable Outlaws are using the Mormon wagon train as a hideout from a pursuing posse. John Ford's Wagon Master is one of the legendary filmmaker's personal favorites, a visually stirring celebration of Western will and cooperation set to the soundtrack crooning of the Sons of the Pioneers. Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr.., Ward Bond (who would later lead TV's Wagon Train) and other familiar Ford stock company players take the reins in this glorious paean to the pioneer spirit. InchWagons west!Inch