 This short shows the challenges faced by MGM s production crew and cast during the filming the Western feature _Westward the Women (1952)_ (qv). The filming took place in the Utah desert, about 50 miles west of the small town of Kanab. The studio had to build its own roads to the shooting locations and constructed all the sets on site. Water, food, and other supplies had to be trucked in daily. The difficult living conditions helped add to the realism of the story of a wagon train of women heading west.