Tommy Lee Jones · 2014 · overland

Tommy Lee Jones's 2014 anti-Western, from Glendon Swarthout's novel. When three women are driven mad by the isolation of frontier life, the pious spinster Mary Bee Cuddy takes on the task no man will: hauling them by wagon back east out of the Nebraska Territory. She frees the claim-jumper George Briggs to help, and together they cross the plains and the Missouri toward a church in Iowa.

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   Loup

   Mary Bee Cuddy, a New York teacher turned lonely homesteader in the frozen Nebraska Territory, volunteers to carry three women broken by prairie madness back east when no husband will take the task.

2. 2
   The Missouri River

   Cuddy and the freed claim-jumper George Briggs drive the caged wagon east over the open plains, weathering the Pawnee, to the Missouri - the line dividing wild territory from settled states.

3. 3
   Hebron

   Across the river in Hebron, Iowa, a Methodist minister and his wife have promised to take the women in - the fragile end of a journey that costs more than either driver had bargained for.