The Way West

Cracking Like a Whip From Here to Excitement!

A sprawling 19th-century wagon-train drama that balances frontier adventure with moral conflict, exploring leadership, community bonds, and the human cost of westward expansion.

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.