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Tales of Wells Fargo Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
38 Episodes 1957 - 1958
Episode 1
Belle Star
Mon, Sep 9, 195730 mins
Jim Hardie is at a train depot when a stage coach arrives. He helps a lovely woman out of the coach along with her luggage. She says she is a widow going to visit a sick relative. When the train arrives , several men ride up to rob the Wells Fargo box on it. As Jim starts to pull his pistol, the woman pulls a gun on him. She is part of the gang which steals the Wells Fargo lock box and then a member, Blue Duck, asks each person on the gangway including Jim for their money. After the gang leaves Jim learns that the woman was Belle Starr and where she lives in Indian Territory from the train agent. Jim decides to use a race horse to draw her out as she loves race horses. She falls for it but Jim soon finds himself a foot.
Episode 2
Two Cartridges
Mon, Sep 16, 195730 mins
A stage is held up by a lone outlaw, Al Porter, which is carrying a strongbox with $10,000 in it. The shotgun takes a shot at the outlaw but is instead wounded in the shoulder by a single return shot. The stage continues to town where Jim Hardie is waiting with the depot agent for it. Upon learning it was robbed, he decides to go alone after the robber as a posse would be seen. About four hours behind the robber he finds his trail which was not well hidden. Shortly after finding the empty strongbox, he comes upon the robber camping after having picked up a second horse. Porter may be green but he is a thinker and refuses to give up trying to escape. However, Porter stirred up the local Sioux when he stole the second horse from them. He and Hardie are now trapped with little ammo.
Episode 3
Apache Gold
Mon, Sep 9, 195730 mins
In Phoenix, Arizona the Wells Fargo manger Mr, Carter tells the reluctant Jim Hardie he is to travel to Tucson to help the Wells Fargo stockholder Floyd Schaeffer search the Superstition Mountains for his young son Tim. Tim left school and joined an old prospector to follow a map he bought that shows where a gold mine exists. In 1864 a teamster named Adams and several men found a big gold strike there but everyone but him was killed by the Apache who hold the area as sacred. After arriving in Tucson he learns Mr. Schaeffer is at the saloon. He finds him along with Lester Cartwright, Tim's roommate and cousin, along with Karl Knudson hired to take care of the animals and supplies on the trip. Schaeffer has a copy of Tim's map they can follow. Upon leaving Jim learns that Lester is a tenderfoot. Slowly the three men become mesmerized by the idea of finding the gold more than Tim. Jim soon finds there is something in the area picking them all off one by one.
Episode 4
John Wesley Hardin
Mon, Sep 30, 195730 mins
Hardie is in town to testify at the trial of a young man, Henry Lambert, for armed robbery. The delinquent won't reveal the name of his partner because he's convinced that his confederate will make sure Hardie doesn't testify by scaring the Wells Fargo agent out of town or having him killed. Lambert's sister, Mary, arrives and tries to convince Hardie to leave or change his testimony after hotel owner Sam Adams points out Hardie who is reluctant to talk to her. When Hardie refuses to run and then guns down the first outlaw sent to kill him, John Wesley Hardin arrives in town who Hardie suspects was hired to finish the job. Hardie refuses to take Hardin's bait but it signals to Hardie who the partner may be.
Episode 5
The Target
Mon, Oct 7, 195730 mins
Jim Hardie is on a stage coach that becomes stuck in a mud hole. They have to push the coach out of the hole so when Pony Express Rider, Stan Blake, who Jim knows rides up, he is asked to help and does so. He shows Jim a watch with the picture of his new wife Jenny in it. Further down the road Jim and the driver notice Stan's horse grazing by the road. They stop and find Stan's body. He has been shot and killed. His watch is gone but they find an ore sample in his jacket. Nothing else has been stolen. Jim takes over to complete Stan's ride and delivers the mail. He notifies Jenny about what happened to Stan and then talks to the local assayer about the ore. He recognizes the source and tells Jim that Old Man Clanton had been asking about it so Jim decides to lay a trap.
Episode 6
The Feud
Mon, Oct 14, 195730 mins
Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to negotiate a right-of-way across Sam Brundage property as a shortcut to a dangerous mountain route they use currently. Sam Brundage greets Jim with a gunshot near his head. The only price he will accept is for Jim to convince his neighbor John McCloud to let water flow again in the river that McCloud dammed up on his property. This is beyond Jim's ability but as he leaves he finds Blake McCloud knocked out after his horse threw him. While tending to Blake, Sam Brundage's daughter Martha rides up to help and Jim suddenly sees a possible solution. He returns Blake to John McCloud and tells them Martha helped. He returns later to implement his idea starting with Blake.
Episode 7
Billy the Kid
Mon, Oct 21, 195730 mins
A range war has eastern New Mexico in turmoil which includes crooked lawmen, merchants and ranchers. A Wells Fargo stagecoach headed for Lincoln, New Mexico is held up by what appears to be a group of Indians. They kill the guard followed by the driver after they stop the stagecoach. A woman gets out of the stage and is promptly shot. They shoot open the strongbox and leave with the gold in it. The woman was not killed but grazed across her forehead knocking her out. She regains consciousness finding herself stranded when a lone rider approaches and stops. The woman, Nell Forrester, tells the man Indians attacked them and she is headed to Lincoln to see her brother John who is the local district attorney. He tells her he is William Bonnie/Billy the Kid but she does not recognize the names. Reluctantly he takes her to her brother who wants him for several murders. Jim Hardie is sent to investigate the holdup. Billy confirms what Hardie found during his investigation but he along with Nell tries to help Billy, who is blamed for the robbery by the local lawmen, with the territorial governor when he arrives in Lincoln.
Episode 8
The Auction
Mon, Oct 28, 195730 mins
Hardie follows the pretty Vivian Coy who is a girlfriend of outlaw Cleve Yance who is still in prison to Temple City for the annual Wells Fargo auction of abandoned property. Wells Fargo thinks one of the suitcases may contain the money from a robbery Yance committed. When Hardie gets off the train, he runs into an old man who is eyeing Coy. Hardie recognizes the man as an old outlaw, Bob Dawson. They strike up a conversation and introduce themselves. Bob tells Hardie that he is not wanted and is retired. At the auction Vivian Coy and a young man Hardie recognizes as The Sundance Kid bid against each other for the case. Bob Dawson joins in the bidding followed by Hardie who wins the bidding. He leaves with the suitcase but is knocked out on a side street and the case is stolen. Coy has followed him and is upset the suitcase is gone saying it was her father's. He follows her when she leaves town on horseback and rescues her trying to cross a river. She eventually loses him but he finds where she went - a cabin where he finds The Sundance Kid shot dead. He continues the search after Vivian says she found The Kid dead herself.
Episode 9
Hank Aka Chips
Mon, Nov 4, 195730 mins
A Wells Fargo stagecoach near the New Mexico/Arizona desert was held up with the shotgun guard wounded. The only thing taken was a mongrel dog in a wooden cage. Jim Hardie is called in and upon talking to the driver and guard learns what was taken and who the dog, Hank, was being shipped to. He tracks down Jeff Anderson in a saloon and tells him why he is there. Jeff informs him that his brother, Ed, died in a mining accident when he fell down a shaft and the dog was his. Hardie backtracks the stage route and eventually finds the broken cage and then the dog who is suffering in the heat but is unable to find the two robbers. He takes the dog to Santa Fe where the mine is to help find the two men. While in Ed Anderson's cabin, Sally Hill enters. Hardie introduces himself to the pretty girl who says she sent the dog to Jeff because that was what Ed wanted but she wants to know where his collar is. She was engaged to Ed but is sure his death was an accident. Ed had sold the mine to her father, Seth Hill, an attorney. Hardie then talks to her father who says he bought the mine but most of the deal was an oral agreement. Hardie suspects the collar held something worth murdering Ed over.
Episode 10
Man in the Box
Mon, Nov 11, 195730 mins
Jim Hardie is at Washoe playing poker and winning when a telegram comes ordering him to Colfax which means he must leave immediately. He hands his chips over to the saloon girl Dixie Lane and heads for the train. At Colfax the Wells Fargo manager, Benson, has called in several agents to help catch the notorious Stillwell gang. He received a tip on a reward poster for the Stillwells that they are going to hit a certain train leaving in three hours. He puts Hardie in charge of the group. Hardie decides to use a combination car so they can take horses with them. It is a quiet trip with the train making one stop when flagged to pick up a women in black and a coffin she is shipping. In reality, she is Sissy Stillwell and the coffin is holding a member of the gang. They steal the Wells Fargo strongbox containing the marked $5,000 Wells Fargo put in it. The agents are limited to waiting for the marked money to appear. In addition, one of the agents shipped the engagement ring he bought for his wife in the shipment and it turns up on Dixie's hand as Hardie tracks the marked money leading to a new trap.
Episode 11
The Kid
Mon, Nov 18, 195730 mins
Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to help Tad Cameron who Hardie hired to be a shotgun for Wells Fargo. He arrives in town to find that a posse is getting ready to go out again to look for Tad. The sheriff tells Hardie he must have been a bad judge of character to hire Tad. He and George McClune walked in to find Tad standing with a smoking gun over the body of the man murdered. Tad then bolted. Hardie asks questions in town about Tad, the man killed and any witnesses. Tad is engaged to Julie Taylor. Hardie talks to her dad, a gunsmith, and then Julie herself who tells him where Tad may be hiding. He finds Tad in a mine and talks him into giving himself up. However, Deputy Sheriff Pierce who found them, wounds Tad and takes them in. Due to a quick trial the next day, Hardie must act as Tad's attorney and prove his innocence.
Episode 12
Barbary Coast
Mon, Nov 25, 195730 mins
Wells Fargo guard Jack Marrow meets with Jim Hardie in Hardie's office in preparation to pick up a $20,000 shipment of jade being brought in from China by Captain George Turnbull. Turnbull is an old friend of Jim's and this is his last Wells Fargo delivery as he is retiring. Jim and Jack meet Turnbull on his ship but Jim must leave the delivery to Marrow and Turnbull. Turnbull relishing being back on land decides they should stop at a saloon for a beer or two in San Francisco's Barbary Coast, the City by the Bay rough and tumble waterfront which is controlled by the Sydney Ducks gang. The valuable shipment of jade disappears when the saloon girl Christine distracts them while the bartender drugs them. The saloon owner was told by Henry Vance about the shipment of jade. The bouncer Twitch takes the drugged pair behind the saloon where he stabs the Wells Fargo guard Marrow and makes it look like Turnbull did it using his own knife. The sea captain is accused of murder, but Hardie suspects that the notorious criminal gang operating on the docks may have been responsible for the crimes.
Episode 13
Ride with the Killer
Mon, Dec 2, 195730 mins
Ernest 'Ernie' Handsfelt holds up a train stealing the Wells Fargo shipment single handily but accidentally leaves his hat behind which has his name in it. The name makes it easy to track him down. Wells Fargo sends Jim Hardie to find him and the money but instead of being alone as is the norm they send a new man, Merle Workman, with Hardie so Workman can study his methods and Hardie can evaluate him. Before this he was an under sheriff who had a reputation for getting his man but feet first. The pair are on a stage when the driver spots a woman he knows as Emily with a broken carriage. A wheel nut has let a rear wheel come off. Jim asks the driver for a flat washer and wire to jury-rig a fix and rides into town with her. Introductions reveal she is Emily Handsfelt, sister of the man they are seeking. Jim to hide his identity introduces himself as Jim Henshaw who is looking for mining claims. Jim is sure Workman is after blood while Jim decides the way to Ernie is not Emily.
Episode 14
The Inscrutable Man
Mon, Dec 9, 195730 mins
A single masked man holds up a Wells Fargo stage and shoots the shotgun guard in the chest. The driver, Jeff McKay, who grew up in the town recognized the shooter with whom he grew up as being Hale Cameron. Jeff telegraphs the corporate office which sends Jim Hardie to catch the shooter. Jeff helps lead Jim to Hale, catch him, and place him in jail for trial. Jeff is engaged to Glory Harper who was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Glen Harper. The saloon in the town is owned by Bill Bolliver who is friends with both the good and bad elements of the wild town. It is assumed he will help Hale Cameron but he promises Glory all will be okay. Hardie is surprised how things work out and even more so why.
Episode 15
The General
Mon, Dec 16, 195730 mins
Jim Hardie has been sent by Wells Fargo to accompany and guard General Phil Sheridan traveling by stagecoach from a train depot to fort Laramie. He is to attend a meeting with Sioux chiefs about keeping the peace in the area which has been having clashes with the Sioux. Sheridan is not known for any respect for Indians. Although Sheridan is on a private stagecoach, beautiful singer Ann Petrie talks her way onto the stage by saying her father is dying, but Hardie recognizes her and exposes the lie. Sheridan is not happy about having the extra Wells Fargo guards but after a peaceful start to the trip they encounter multiple incidents proving their worth.
Episode 16
Laredo
Mon, Dec 23, 195730 mins
Jim Hardie is summoned to Corpus Christi, Texas a couple of days before Christmas when he was hoping to be elsewhere celebrating with friends. The agent there explains that there is a problem with gangs in Mexico who tell the Mexican people they are insurrectionists trying to take over and improve their situation in Mexico. They are able to do this due to guns being smuggled to them via Laredo, Texas. Wells Fargo is not concerned directly with what is happening in Mexico but they are being accused of helping to smuggle the guns. Hardie's assignment is to find out who is leading the smuggling and stop it. He pretends to be a Wells Fargo freight driver taking a load of guns to Laredo but the guns are replaced by shovels as listed on the manifest. In Laredo the Mexican sent to pick up the guns asks to see the guns. When the two Americans find the switch, they decide to kill the Mexican and take the money. Hardie intercedes and his aid for the wounded Mexican and his family lead to helpful clues.
Episode 17
The Witness
Mon, Dec 30, 195730 mins
At the small town of Dry Creek, Colorado the Wells Fargo Express Office is held up by two local men who take $10,000 late at night. As they leave the robbery Doc Murchison rides up to the men recognizing the Copeland brothers, Frank and Jed. who own a ranch near Dry Creek. Frank shoots and kills Doc to prevent them from being connected with the robbery. The local blacksmith hears the shot and comes out to find Doc but sees no one else. Jim Hardie who was good friends with Doc is sent to investigate. He finds Dry Creek which is normally very quiet has an aging sheriff, Tom Clements. Upon his arrival in Dry Creek, Jim is met by Billy Burns, a young lad, who is trying to earn money to by a homestead for him and his older sister, Sharon. Their parents were killed and they are squatting on land. Billy who is intent on marrying off his sister asks Jim if he is single. Jim pays Billy to run errands as he starts his investigation. However, the investigation stalls until Billy raises his hopes after Jim offers a $1000 reward for information.
Episode 18
Doc Bell
Tue, Jan 7, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie enters the Angel Island prison in California as a prisoner to befriend the convict Doc Bell. Doc Bell's gang had held up the Maryville stagecoach netting them $100,000. Doc has hide the money. Jim and Doc plan and execute an escape from the prison. Doc uses pepper to evade the search dogs followed by the pair stealing clothes, horses and weapons. Doc leads Jim to his hideout where they meet the two members of Doc's gang, Tibbs and Curly. Upon seeing Jim, Curly is not happy but grudgingly goes long with Doc Bell. Doc Bell is the brains of the outfit. He starts spending a lot of time alone away from camp. He plans a train robbery in which Jim must participate. They steal $20,000 but Tibbs is injured by a gunshot to the shoulder. Doc Bell being a real surgeon removes the bullet and Tibbs heals okay. Each man receives $5,000 from the robbery but Jim's real goal is getting Doc to lead him to the $100,000.
Episode 19
Stage West
Mon, Jan 13, 195830 mins
At the Mesa City stagecoach stop Jim Hardie and the Wells Fargo agent, Dave, are eyeing an attractive woman on the stage that has stopped there. Hardie decides to ask the woman if she would like to dismount but then notices she is in handcuffs. The San Francisco detective Pete Gerson is accompanying her. He decides to step out of the stage and then notices a couple of men watching him. He goes to Hardie and Tom telling them he wants to consign his prisoner to Wells Fargo for the trip to San Francisco. Tom is skeptical but Hardie says Wells Fargo will take on the job. Gerson decides he will accompany them. One of the men comes over and shoots Gerson killing him while Hardie wounds the shooter. Hardie rides his own horse to accompany the stage holding the future witness - minus handcuffs. Men are following them so at the next stop, Hardie takes his "package" with him on foot to meet with the stage later but can he lose the men following them?
Episode 20
Hoss Tamer
Mon, Jan 20, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is sent to Oak Flats, a small town near the Great American Desert, which has a few mining claims nearby. Hardie is undercover as the replacement agent for the one killed by "lead poisoning" plus the stage coach was robbed. So far there has been no clues to the killer but Jim takes an interest when a young man, Tim Farland, who was working for the circus as a horse trainer asks the general store and stable owner, Binks, for a job. He is trying to earn cash to pay off a loan on his ranch. Supposedly hard hearted Binks has no job but Jim suggests Tim try the Gopher Hole ranch who has horses to break/train. Tim tries them but is severely hurt when they force him to try breaking a wild horse fast. Binks, who is really a softy, gives Tim a job in his stable where Tim comes to help Hardie.
Episode 21
Hide Jumpers
Mon, Jan 27, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is sent to Buffalo Creek, Kansas to check on a buffalo hide buyer, Fresno Keeley, that Wells Fargo is backing. His loads of buffalo hides paid for with Wells Fargo money have been stolen three times but he can't identify the thieves. Upon his arrival in the area Jim stops at the Ben Thompson camp. Ben is a well known gambler from Texas who has a brother Billy in the area. Jim aids Ben when a fight breaks out over his faro game while Jim is waiting to see if Ben has seen Fresno. Ben is no help so Jim checks with the reluctant railroad agent on who is shipping hides. The information has him believing Henry Wilson, another hide dealer, is behind the trouble with Billy Thompson involved. Jim finds Fresno tied up after another robbery and the two decide to set a trap.
Episode 22
The Walking Mountain
Mon, Feb 3, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie reports to the manager's office in San Francisco to receive his new assignment. He is being sent to the Walking Mountain mine near Sonora, California to investigate the loss of high grade gold ore called "high grading" from the mine. Some at the mine are accusing Wells Fargo of doing it as the ore is shipped with them but one of the mine owners doubts it as does Well Fargo who wants to prove it is being done at the mine. One Wells Fargo investigator was killed in a mine accident after two days on the job. Hardie is hired as a miner and finds that his gun has had the gun powder removed from the bullets after he recovers it from the mine office on the first day. Secondly, the mine cave-in was no accident - the timbers were cut.
Episode 23
Bill Longley
Mon, Feb 10, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is in Fork City near the Texas border at the Wells Fargo office with the local agent when a young man, Jess Evans, enters the office asking if the $5,000 reward for Bill Longley is valid and available that night. He says he can provide Longley but needs the money immediately. The agent says he would have to wire for it but under pressure Hardie promises it will be available. In a few minutes he returns with Bill Longley tied up on horseback. Upon entering the Wells Fargo office and seeing the cash on the desk, Longley unties his hands as Jess holds a gun on the agent and Hardie. Evans knocks Hardie out before they take off leaving him feeling very foolish. After they are out of town Evans steals all the money and runs off Longley's horse saying he has plans for Longley's girlfriend Marge. Hardie on their trail finds Longley's horse followed by Longley. They decide to work together to recover the money and Marge but Hardie can't be sure of the outlaw.
Episode 24
The Prisoner
Mon, Feb 17, 195830 mins
Senator George Skagway is taken off a Wells Fargo stage coach by the Red Willis gang supposedly for ransom. The Senator was a judge earlier and sent Red Willis and friends to prison for twenty years so they now want revenge. The government cannot offer a ransom for the senator but Wells Fargo can. All searches for the Senator have come up empty so far so Jim Hardie who is brought in on the case decides to use an old outlaw Hardie sent to prison, Bob Dawson, to help as he was a cellmate with Red Willis until recently. For $5,000 and a parole Dawson agrees to help locate the Senator but is his word good.
Episode 25
Dr. Alice
Sun, Feb 23, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie finally gets a vacation after five years so he heads home to his ranch at Pleasant Valley where he has a new colt from his racing mare that may be a fine race horse in the future. Before he can settle in a telegram arrives ordering him back to work as the driver and guard were killed on the Rutherford run with the saw mill payroll stolen. Hardie is riding on the stage carrying the replacement funds with Dr. Alice MacCauley and a man going by the name Harry Edwards. The same men try holding up the stage again. When Hardie attempts to intervene, Edwards pulls a gun on him. Hardie is able to force Edwards off the speeding stage. Hardie is able to wound one man while the guard is hit. The stage makes it through. The female doctor has lost her husband and is returning east as she is fed up with the west. She declines requests to help the pregnant wife of the Wells Fargo agent but is forced by Edwards who is really The El Paso Kid to help his wounded brother after he kidnaps her. Hardie goes after her alone hoping he can find her.
Episode 26
The Sooners
Mon, Mar 3, 195830 mins
During the land rush of 1889, Wells Fargo selected a spot for its first bank and relay station in the new city Mason City, Oklahoma and Jim Hardie was tasked with buying a fast horse from his uncle's breeding farm with plenty of stamina to carry its rider to the designated spot and stake the company's claim. When the dust settles, another group has laid claim to the designated spot by violating the Army rules of entering the area early. Hardie is ordered to return there to determine what went wrong with the plan when neither the rider nor horse can be found plus Wells Fargo has no depot in Mason City. His questions quickly put him in danger.
Episode 27
Alias Jim Hardie
Mon, Mar 10, 195830 mins
After a major robbery of a Wells Fargo shipment on a train near Globe, Arizona, Jim Hardie is sent there to help guard a $20,000 payroll shipment going by stage. As he is riding his horse there, he decides to stop overnight at a waterhole before continuing to Globe the next day. As he prepares to make a fire, a man, Quirt Johnson, rides up saying he recognizes Hardie. Hardie, relaxing his guard, finds himself being taken prisoner by Johnson and his two partners. They tie Hardie with rawhide strips and Johnson takes his identification papers plus his horse. They leave one man to guard Hardie while Johnson goes to Globe where Pat Denton, the Wells Fargo clerk, recognizes him as Hardie to the agent, Cliff Harmon. Johnson tricks the agent into opening the safe and letting him see the combination. When Pat fakes being sick, the agent goes for a doctor and they steal the payroll. Hardie during the night is able to escape by wetting the rawhide but can he catch up in time to stop the robbery?
Episode 28
The Johnny Ringo Story
Mon, Mar 17, 195830 mins
Wells Fargo has a $5,000 reward out for Johnny Ringo. He is playing in a poker game with several other men including Lou Dancher. Ringo is having a good night and when he cashes out after beating Dancher with a full house over three kings, Dancher is ready to draw on him but the dealer stops him. Ringo stops by the telegraph office where he picks up a message and then leaves town. Shortly afterwards, Jim Hardie rides into town looking for Johnny although he wants no part of a gunfight with him. The clerk at the telegraph office shows Jim a copy of the message Johnny picked up which was from a Ruth at Prescott City. Jim finds Johnny camped on the trail and arrests him. Johnny asks for one favor. He wants to go see his sister Ruth who is dying for three days. She was sent west for her health but it isn't helping. She knows nothing of Johnny's past. Jim agrees to the request but Lou Dancher follows them and may spoil the agreement.
Episode 29
The Newspaper
Mon, Mar 24, 195830 mins
The town of Madden is controlled and owned by Effie Sutton along with her brother Tom, the sheriff. The one item she doesn't own is the local paper owned by John Sayers and his daughter Sue. Effie has started a small stage line called S&S Stage lines that has a short run that competes with Wells Fargo. Sent to Madden to investigate problems Wells Fargo's stagecoaches are having in the vicinity, Hardie discovers the town is run by the ruthless businesswoman who opposes the townspeople's attempt to have an election. Hardie going undercover meets John Sayers on the Wells Fargo stage to Madden. Sayers has asked for a U.S. Marshal to attend the election. The stage is held up and stolen plus Sayers is shot in the back and murdered. Using the town's newspaper, Hardie helps organize the citizenry to bring good government to the community.
Episode 30
Special Delivery
Mon, Mar 31, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is riding shotgun guard on a shipment of $20,000 in gold that Wells Fargo is afraid the Comanche Stelman gang will try to steal. At a stop they pickup a married couple returning east to Missouri, Army Major Dennis Keel being escorted to Fort Laramie for a trial on whether he is guilty of massacring Cheyenne women and children and cargo - a 14 pound baby girl named Angie being shipped to her grandparents. On the trail they stop at an Indian lance from Long Knife, a Cheyenne Chief. Hardie talks to him and learns he wants Major Keel but Hardie refuses to turn him over. The stage leaves unharmed although the Cheyennes fire at them. Once into open territory Hardie and the driver Keever think they may be in the clear. At a stage stop they enter the building to find Comanche Stelman's gang there waiting for them. The gang ties everyone up and prepares to leave only to find themselves under attack by the Cheyenne. They are forced to return to the building, untie everyone and fight for their lives.
Episode 31
Deadwood
Mon, Apr 7, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is sent to Deadwood, South Dakota to help protect a major shipment. After he reaches Deadwood he takes his horse to a stable where he finds the stableman working on a beautiful black horse that has been ridden hard and through river mud. He heads to the saloon where he finds the local agent, Mr. Stevens, who introduces him to the saloon owner, Bess Hollister. While talking they hear screams from outside. They go out to find a pair of horses harnessed together running into town. They are recognized as Wells Fargo horses from the stage Hardie was to meet. A posse finds the driver and guard shot in the back at a creek crossing. A hat they find leads them to the ex-outlaw Billy Reno who is now working a claim where he hit it big. Evidence is all pointing to Reno but too easily for Hardie.
Episode 32
The Gun
Mon, Apr 14, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is sent to Rondo after Wells Fargo learns the office is to be held up that night by the Holley gang. The agent there knows nothing about it until he is surprised by Hardie. Hardie explains his plan for catching Holley and his gang. The two men along with the Sheriff wait for the men to break into the office which has $5,000 stored there.Hardie is able to capture Holley after a fight as another man fires at him and runs for his horse. Hardie fires one shot killing the man. Holley says he doesn't know the man implying Hardie killed an innocent bystander. They learn the man is Harry Borkman who is an ex-outlaw with a small ranch at Rio Nada where his son Matt is the Sheriff. Although he is cleared, he decides to take the body to the widow and try to determine why the man was at Rondo. Once there his reception was far from friendly as he tries to gather information.
Episode 33
The Reward
Mon, Apr 21, 195830 mins
For a change the Wells Fargo investigator, Jim Hardie, is on an easy and pleasant task of delivering a reward check to Joseph Owen at the town Bridger who helped foil a stagecoach robbery. The small town seems nice enough and the people friendly until Hardie asks the whereabouts of Owen. People suddenly shut up and the hotel clerk tries to refuse him a room. As he prepares to go to his room a man appears who has been summoned. He decides to visit Hardie in his room. He tells Hardie his name is Chuck Latimer, a local rancher. With all the local mines closed, his ranch is the only significant business left in the area. Later, Latimer and his sister June interrupt Hardie waiting for supper in a local diner run by Gus Ehrhardt. After Latimer slaps his sister around, Hardie drives them away. Hardie, no longer hungry, is told by Gus where Owen's homestead is located and that he is dead. The next morning Hardie rides there and soon surmises what has happened.
Episode 34
The Pickpocket
Mon, Apr 28, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie's visit to his horse ranch is interrupted when Wells Fargo sends him to an area to investigate a rash of train robberies. While on a train to the area Jim makes friends with a man who offers to share his sandwiches with him. The train stops at a remote location and Jim finds himself midst a train robbery. The robbers strip the passengers of their money leaving Jim and his friend Homer Pittman broke. When they arrive at the next town, the two men have to share the one remaining hotel room plus Jim has to give up his gun and gun belt as security for the cost of the room. Homer gives Jim a watch he stole from the leader of the train robbers. When Jim tries to hock it, it leads him to the gang he is searching for.
Episode 35
Scapegoat
Mon, May 5, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is sent to investigate the shooting death of the Wells Fargo employee, Charley Dormer. Upon looking at the body Jim determines he was shot at very close range indicating it was likely someone he knew. Hardie sits down with Sheriff Eaton who tells Hardie that he thinks the case is open and shut although he can't prove it. He believes Clyde Bender did it. Bender is currently the school teacher in the town but he is an ex-outlaw and convict. Hardie knows him as he sent him to Marysville Prison years ago. Hardie visits Len Spears who is a part time funeral director. Hardie picks out the most expensive casket and arranges for a speaker at the funeral - Clyde Bender. Spears has high praise for Bender's teaching ability. However, stableman Hank Stiles will not allow his charge, young Danny Stiles to study or even contact Bender who loans Danny books to read. Hardie meets with Bender who is friendly but still resentful about the way some people treat him. Hardy soon suspects Bender is innocent but how to prove the true guilty party?
Episode 36
The Renegade
Mon, May 12, 195830 mins
Wells Fargo manager John Curtis has called Jim Hardie in to investigate a man, Charley Mason, he had hired to ride shotgun on stage runs. Curtis was impressed by Mason's wife even though Mason had no references. Mason was wearing a belt buckle that eventually reminded Curtis of a similar belt buckle that Old Man Bostwick and his three sons wore. They were cattle rustlers down in Texas. The cattlemen had shifted the shipment of money to Wells Fargo. If Mason is one of the Bostwick boys, his job would be the perfect cover for learning about shipments. Hardie decides to first visit Mason's wife in Knight's Landing. He is impressed by her and her home. They have only been married four months and her dad was a traveling minister. They met at his camp meetings. Hardie decides to return to the Bostwick grounds at the Long Horn Saloon in Bodie, Texas posing as a writer. He finds the Bostwicks but it is not a friendly meeting. However, he still has a good sense about Charley but he too, proves elusive as a big shipment out of Laramie Mason will be protecting is coming up..
Episode 37
The Break
Mon, May 19, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is on a stage to Placer City to investigate a robbery and the murder of a Wells Fargo agent during the robbery. One of the passengers, Frank Woodson, seems to recognize Hardie but Jim does not know him. Two men stop the stage even though the driver says they are caring no money on this leg of the route. The men force the passengers to get out of the stage saying it is not a holdup but they want one man worth a lot of greenbacks. After the first of the three passengers dismounts, Woodson tells Hardie he is the one they are after. After Woodson and then Hardie dismount, the men, bounty hunters, make it clear Woodson won't make it back alive. Hardie, believing the outlaw deserves a trial, tosses Woodson his gun and ducks. Woodson kills the two men and leaves on one of their horses. Upon reaching Placer City Hardie is told by Sheriff Lund the only clue is a wounded Bud Sawyer. He was wounded during the robbery, is young, and won't talk. Having heard from Lund that Jesse James was just killed, Hardie decides to pose as Jesse James to trick the kid with an escape hoping Sawyer will lead him to the gang and their source.
Episode 38
The Sniper
Mon, May 26, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie has been requested to go to Rock City to investigate the theft of $4,000 from the Wells Fargo office there by agent Bob Benton, an old friend of Hardie. Jim enters Bob's office followed by them renewing their friendship;. However, Bob showing how worried he is closes the door and starts to pull the shades on the windows as a shot rings out crashing the window and killing Bob. Jim looking out the window spots an open window in the hotel across the street that may be the source of the sniper bullet. As he runs to check it out, the other two Wells Fargo employees, Harriet Parnell and Clem Withers, run into the room with Jim telling them not to touch anything. Jim crosses the street into the hotel, up the stairs past the clerk, and into the room finding it empty. The clerk and hotel owner, Roy Dorcas, walks in with a cane asking Jim what he is doing. Jim explains that Benton is dead. Dorcas says they were close friends and fought together in the war. Hardie starts his investigation and quickly senses all is not well with the other two employees who each have their secrets. Eventually each decides to tell on the other one but nothing that helps solve the crimes.
