
Plot
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
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Cast

Hilary Swank
Mary Bee Cuddy

Tommy Lee Jones
George Briggs

Grace Gummer
Arabella Sours

Miranda Otto
Theoline Belknap

Sonja Richter
Gro Svendsen

Tim Blake Nelson
The Freighter

James Spader
Aloysius Duffy

John Lithgow
Reverend Alfred Dowd

Evan Jones
Bob Giffen

Barry Corbin
Buster Shaver

Hailee Steinfeld
Tabitha Hutchinson

Meryl Streep
Altha Carter

William Fichtner
Vester Belknap

David Dencik
Thor Svendsen

Jesse Plemons
Garn Sours

Jo Harvey Allen
Mrs. Polhemus

Caroline Lagerfelt
Netti Svendsen

Karen Jones
Mrs. Linens

Brian Kennedy
Barkeep Fitzpatrick

Rick Irwin
Dealer

Richard Andrew Jones
Carmichael

Autumn Shields
Loney Belknap (uncredited)

Martin Palmer
Vigilante #2

Jerry Vahn Knight
Vigilante #3

Adrian Doerfler
Vigilante #4

Lela Rose Allen
Belknap Daughter #1

Sachie Capitani
Belknap Daughter #2

Austin Leonard Jones
Banjo Player

Kaelynn Wright
Arabella Sibling

Jesi Mandagaran
Paulina