Wagon Master

A Mormon wagon train led by the Elder Wiggs (Ward Bond) around 1880 has reached Crystal City, Utah, and needs a wagon master to lead it further to its destination. At the last minute horse traders Travis Blue (Ben Johnson) and Sandy Owens (Harry Carey, Jr.) take the wagon master job. After resuming its journey west, the train finds and adds the wagon of a medicine show troupe, who, en route to California, have become stranded without water. The train surmounts an encounter with a posse, a washed out trail blocking the way west, and ultimately a violent confrontation with the