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Wagon Wheels (1934)

Although I'm not a big fan of John Wayne's The Big Trail (1930), I rated both versions of that film 3/5 stars. Much better than whatever this is.  So Clint (Randolph Scott) and a couple other guides are set to take a wagon train west to Oregon. Nancy (Gail Patrick) wants to join the wagon train with her four-year old son. Her husband is dead, and Clint tells her no, her equipment isn't up to the journey, and neither is she. She gets some better equipment from another guy -- it's never really explained what he wanted from her or how much he charged her. Maybe he was just being nice.  Fortunately for the wagon train, there are no buffalo around to stampede, but at least there are Indians. They attack. It's hard to tell how far the wagon train had gone by this point, but they were crossing a bigger river, like maybe the Missouri. Maybe they've made it as far as that... Clint and the others are able to chase the Indians away, and they never come back. Nor do they ha...