A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
Plot keywords (from IMDb): 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1920s, 19th century, 20th century, abandoned by father, abandoned by husband, american indian, anti semitism, based on novel, boy, congresswoman, death, death of father, death of husband, drifter, dying in someone's arms, epic, family relationships, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, former slave, friend, friendship, frontier, girl, giving a toast, grandmother granddaughter relationship, grandmother grandson relationship, gun battle, gunfight, handshake, husband wife relationship, interfaith service, interracial marriage, interracial relationship, jew, kansas, kiss, land rush, marital separation, mother daughter relationship, mother in law daughter in law relationship, mother son relationship, native american, newspaper, newspaper editor, newspaper headline, oil, oil field, old west, one word title, orchestral music score, osage tribe, pioneer, politician, politics, progressivism, racial prejudice, reference to moses, reference to the declaration of independence, reference to the ten commandments, reformed prostitute, religious tolerance, saving a life, shootout, statue, street shootout, telephone, telephone call, title spoken by character, trial, u.s. citizenship, violence, western town, wild west, year 1907, year 1929, year 1930, younger version of character, oklahoma