Word: wagoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to work in a barbershop when he was twelve, as a wobbler's boy (in charge of lathering the customers). Then he became a grocer's helper; all evening he would fill his little wooden wagon with goods, and at midnight he started his laborious deliveries to the scattered cottages on the mountainside; at the edge of town a small, bespectacled man would meet him and help him pull the heavy load. It was his father, who always tried to make things easier...
...exodus was no haphazard expedition. Advance parties of armed men went ahead to build and garrison forts, plant crops along the route, prepare the road. Wagon trains were spaced to conserve grazing land, and the flock was cheered at night by Captain Pitts's Brass Band, which had been converted en masse in England and had come to join the trek...
...shaped like a mule's head) belie his origin as the fifth of nine sons of a poor Missouri farmer. Ferd went to school for only six months. At 15, he went into business for himself as a "road trader," driving all over the Midwest in a covered wagon and swapping animals with farmers along the road. That sharpened his trader's eye; now he can tell an animal's value as soon as it takes a few steps in the auction ring...
...Leeds) with the proper pedestrian slant concerning what the public wants. She becomes his private consultant--"Miss Humanity"--on the plain citizen's tastes in story twists. Instructions explicitly forbid her mingling in film colony circles where she might "go Hollywood;" one night she dares venture into a hamburger wagon where Kenny Baker sings while he flips ("love walked right in . . . and drove the shadows away") in a romantic golden voice custom-built for Mr. Plain Citizen. Sugar daddy Menjou gets the word and the bird. If this plot wearies it nevertheless does not get in the way sufficiently...
Percy Kilbride and Marjorie Main, as decayed neighbors, are worked for a good deal of the great deal they are worth. The plot also bears down hard on MacMurray's interest (invented for the screen) in a rich lady farmer (Louise Allbritton) who drives a station wagon. It ends, happily, as soon as Miss Colbert has battled nature just long & hard enough to harvest her first baby...