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What is the great things about the TV Anthology shows of the 1950s with a variety of themes and types that utilize. You could have a western one week, a political drama the next, crime and film noir the following week and comedy right after. The long-running "General Electric Theater" showed Ronald Reagan doing pretty much all of these things, and the Western was a regular entry in the series as he had done a number of them on the big screen. He's joined here by Jim Davis of "Dallas", Robert Fuller of "Emergency", Glenn Strange of the Universal horror movies, and the always excellent and versatile Shirley Knight as the heroine. For Broadway fans, there's also future "Broadway Baby" Ethel Shutta of "Follies" as one of the women in the camp. The story surrounds a Native American who desires two of the young women in the wagon train, Knight and Jennifer West, to become his bride, and by refusing, this could create major conflict. Maybe not a great honorable story, indicating stereotypical themes of native savagery. At least this tribe doesn't want to slaughter the white man, and Reagan tries to explain the general motivation of the chief. There's enough detail in the story to grab the viewer's attention, and overall, it's an above average episode.