Westward the Women
In a time when "The West" pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men, there's a severe lack of women among the workers on Roy Whitman's (John McIntire) farm in the California Valley. So he goes back east to Chicago to recruit 150 women willing to become wives for his employees.
Storyline
In a time when "The West" pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men, there's a severe lack of women among the workers on Roy Whitman's (John McIntire) farm in the California Valley. So he goes back east to Chicago to recruit 150 women willing to become wives for his employees.
From the candidates, he selects 138 who seem able to survive a month's long journey across "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains.
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