Many Rivers to Cross

1798, Kentucky. Arguably the two biggest hazards trapper and fur trader Bushrod Gentry (Robert Taylor) has to face are marauding Shawnee Indians, who infrequently leave their reserve but when they do travel in packs, and the amorous daughters of the farmers with whom he trades, and they see him as different than the farming and ranching boys who generally court them. Bushrod has no intention of settling down, a wife and family does not mix with his Lone Wolf nomadic life, especially as he is on his way to the uncharted northwest territory. He may have met his match in headstrong Mary Stuart Cherne (Eleanor Parker) and the Cherne family, who take him in temporarily while he recuperates from an injury. Mary Stuart is the only girl among five siblings, but arguably is the best frontiers person among the five, she having mastered the skills of shooting from her father, Cadmus Cherne (Victor McLaglen). Mary Stuart's sights set on Bushrod as husband material are despite burly Luke Radford (Alan Hale, Jr.) always having seen her as his intended. But the more that Mary Stuart tries to manipulate the situation for she and Bushrod to get married, the further Bushrod wants to run to get away from the situation and her. Their time together, in good and bad, may change their individual perspectives on matrimony to each other.