The story of the first generation of Americans to settle the Great Plains of Kansas and Nebraska, told in their own words. In evocative black and white, it combines documentary and dramatic techniques in a unique fashion.

A Home Out West presents characters who speak to us out of the past in a dramatic and imaginative style, from the Great Plains of the 19th century. Seven characters, seven stories are woven throughout a ninety-minute film, and over a quarter century. They speak intimately to us as they did in their letters and diaries, telling their stories in their own words: fascinating both in their distance from us, and in their human familiarity. It is the Spoon River anthology of the Great Plains. A Home Out West is the story of the first generation to settle the Great Plains of Kansas and Nebraska, told in their own words. In evocative black and white, it combines documentary and dramatic techniques to capture the moment in a unique fashion.—Anonymous