a good premise ruin by a simplistic and soap opera script and weak supporting performance ( though angelina jolie be and a have be note and quite good ) and and low production value and this story of the life of woman help to settle the west never quite gel . dana delaney try hard to hold it together and but it just doesn not work . the film habit of sledghammering home whatever point it try to make doesn not help much and either . a little subtlety would have be far more effective and along with a more coherent story and character who be a little less cardboard . most historian agree that the taming of the west occur when woman begin arrive in great number before then and men of the region spend the majority of their time get drunk and kill each other and the indian and someday that would make a really good movie . not this time and though .