In 1938, an unmarried New York City bank clerk facing her 40th birthday ,Mollie Truesdale (
Jean Arthur), with a trio of unsuitable suitors, finds that her cherished dream of making a 17-day all-expenses-paid bus trip to the Pacific Coast and back, isn't all she thought it would be...until she reaches Oregon and a bucking broncho tosses a rodeo performer on top of her and knocks her flat. Duke Hudkins (
John Wayne), by way of apology, shows her the sights of Fairfield, Oregon, and she misses her bus, quarrels with the bewildered Duke, hitchhikes across a lot of desert...and a romance is born.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>