| Sodbusters are about equal to farm ani-reals on the social scale of the ranchingcommunity of Wyoming in the 1870s.Zachariah and Carrie Bennett, teen-aged ehildren of that wretched class,are determined to escape the trap ofdestitution, desolation, and scorn thathas worn down their parents. Adolph Bennett, their abusive, Bible-spouting father, makes an already mis-erable existence unbearable. It is hisevil temper that finally forces his chil-dren to flee. Carrie is rescued from a runawaywagon by the dangerously seductivecowboy Rio Aider. She tails in lovewith him and, believing his proposal ofmarriage, compromises herself.After ashoot- em-up showdown in Cheyenne,she is branded a whore and savagelybeaten by her father. Rio takes oil andCan ie resolves to follow him to Texas, on foot.Zach reluctantly accompanies her. |
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