
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.
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
Crew

Tommy Lee Jones
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Wesley Oliver
Writer

Kieran Fitzgerald
Writer
Glendon Swarthout
Novel
Roberto Silvi
Editor

Rodrigo Prieto
Director of Photography
Kevin Black
Second Second Assistant Director
Faith Strongheart
Production Coordinator
Deborah Dobson Bach
Executive Producer

Michael Fitzgerald
Executive Producer
G. Hughes Abell
Executive Producer
Richard Romero
Executive Producer
Peter Brant
Producer

Luc Besson
Producer
Brian Kennedy
Producer
Merideth Boswell
Production Design
Robert Presley
Steadicam Operator
Jeanne McCarthy
Casting
Mara Herdmann
Set Costumer
Claire Sandrin
Set Costumer
Emily Egge
Costume Supervisor
Lahly Poore
Costume Design
Cydney Cornell
Hairstylist

Melissa Yonkey
Hairstylist
David Atherton
Makeup Department Head

Vivian Baker
Makeup Department Head
Brian Austin Wenrich
Art Department Coordinator
Rosario Provenza
Assistant Art Director
Derek Vanderhorst
Sound Designer
Phil Barrie
Sound Effects Editor
David Bach
Supervising Sound Editor
Richard Beggs
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jim Schultz
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Music Editor
Matt Kunau
Dolby Consultant
Walter Spencer
Foley Artist
Mike Horton
Foley
Blair Foord
Special Effects Coordinator
Félix Bergés
Visual Effects Supervisor
Helen Martí Donoghue
Visual Effects Producer
Juan Luis Gorjon
CGI Supervisor

Marco Beltrami
Original Music Composer
Patrick A. Reynolds Jr.
Transportation Coordinator
Lamarr Gray
Rigging Gaffer
Greg Davis
Rigging Gaffer
Wendy Ozols-Barnes
Set Decoration
Heidi Mayfield
Set Decoration Buyer
Ronald O. Jaynes
Construction Coordinator
Dawn Jones
Still Photographer
Pam Fuller
Script Supervisor
Rebecca Puck Stair
Location Manager

Heather Burton
Stunts
William H. Burton Sr.
Stunt Coordinator
Keith Walters
Property Master
Lucas Moore
Studio Teachers
Allegro Hopkins
Studio Teachers
Loan Phan
Digital Intermediate
Devon Miller
Digital Intermediate
Guy Barnes
Art Direction
Severino Gonzales
Leadman
Dennis Riewerts
Leadman
Johnny Long
Greensman
Paul Judges
Greensman
James Duddy
Greensman
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