A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny, as well as the older Abby Masters, who begins a romance with scout Jim Burch. Along the way, the wagon train battles Indians led by Kenneth Murdock, a trapper who doesn’t welcome competition for Oregon’s lucrative fur trade. Wagon Wheels is a 1934 remake of 1931’s Fighting Caravans, using stock footage from the original.
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