Academy Award winner Dean Jagger (1949, Best Supporting Actor, Twelve O'Clock High) stars in this inspirational film, based on the real-life saga of one group's victory over oppression and hardship.

After the death of the Mormons' founding leader Joseph Smith (Vincent Price), Brigham Young (Jagger) sets out to lead his people westward to Utah, a "promised land" where they can escape religious persecution. But the trip's challenges are more than just man versus untamed land, as trail scout Jonathan Kent (Tyrone Power) discovers when he falls in love with a non-Mormon (Linda Darnell) in this riveting film about the Mormon settling of Salt Lake City.