A fictionalized account of the real-life adventure of the Sager family. Travelling with a wagon train from Missouri to Oregon, things are going well for the Sagers, until father Sager dies from blood poisoning following an Indian attack, and mother Sager dies soon afterward from pneumonia. The leaders of the wagon train decide to send the children back, but the oldest, John (who had been described by all the adults as lazy and worthless), decides to lead his siblings through the wilderness to complete the journey their parents started.
as Henry Sager
as Dr. Dutch
as Naome Sager
as Kit Carson
as Billy Shaw
as John Sager
as White Elk
as Sally Shaw
as Francis Sager
as Catherine Sager
as Matilda Sager
as Lousia Sager
as Elizabeth Sager
as Anna Sager
as Mrs. Whitman
as Dr. Whitman
as Indian
as Adam Polk
as (as Ann David)
as Indian
as Narrator (adult Catherine)