6 Films & TV Shows Set In Nebraska During The 19th Century
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Miracle Workers: Oregon Trail
Nebraska Oregon The 1840sIn 1844, an idealistic small-town preacher teams up with a wanted outlaw and an adventurous & liberated prairie wife to lead a wagon train west on the Oregon Trail across an American landscape which, much like today, is fraught with both promise and peril.
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The Homesman
Nebraska The 1850sWhen 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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O Pioneers!
Nebraska The 1890sThe future was stirring in the land... and in her heart. — A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning for her childhood love to return.
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The Far Horizons
Oregon Montana North Dakota Iowa Nebraska Missouri The 1800sVirginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
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The Nebraskan
Nebraska The 1860sIf the Indians didn't get them... they'd get each other! — War looms on the horizon when an Army officer's American Indian aide is accused of murdering a tribal elder.