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Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1958 - 1959
Episode 1
The Gambler
Mon, Sep 8, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is riding shotgun guard on a stage taking money to the Wells Fargo Express office in Popular Springs to forestall a bank run. A wheel has broken on the stage delaying them in another town until the local blacksmith can repair it. The two passengers are forced to leave the stage which includes Bill Dowd. He is returning home to Popular Springs after three years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit. His reception is not the warmest and he takes it out in the saloon where he breaks a bottle and some glasses. Elderly Marshal Roy Emmett is unable to control him but after he leaves Hardie steps in to give the broke Dowd a $50 loan hoping it will give him an edge to change his life. After paying his bar bill, Dowd joins a poker game indicating Hardie's actions might not help. Unknown to Hardie one of his passengers and two other men are there planning to rob the stage.
Episode 2
The Manuscript
Mon, Sep 15, 195830 mins
Bob Dawson is living at Brisbane, Nebraska while paroled to Jim Hardie after he helped Wells Fargo. He comes to town talking about the stories he has written in his memoirs about people including those in Brisbane. Pleading poverty people offer him money and food to stay on his good side. After a fight with Nedy West in the saloon, Dawson is forced to kill him in self-defense when Nedy attacks him with a gun at Dawson's place. After he is arrested Jim Hardie arrives after being notified. When he learns the manuscript has been stolen and someone shoots at Dawson while he is in jail, Hardie is sure Dawson is innocent. The question is who was scared enough to try to kill him and where is the original manuscript?
Episode 3
White Indian
Mon, Sep 22, 195830 mins
As Jim Hardie and the Sheriff come out of the Sheriff's office, there is a disturbance at the general store. The storekeeper is throwing a young Choctaw brave out of his store. The boy appearing to be eighteen or nineteen says Wells Fargo and gives the Sheriff a piece of paper. It is a Wells Fargo bill of lading for a four year old boy named Tommy McCrea being shipped by his grandmother in St. Louis to his parents out west fourteen years ago. Hardie takes the boy who speaks no English under his protection. He finds the people in the hotel and restaurant unwilling to serve the boy so he must force them. When the boy runs away, Hardie finds him at the local Choctaw encampment. He learns that the boy was found by a stage and raised by the tribe but the tribe no longer wants him as they hate whites. After sending some telegrams and talking to Niles Larson, he learns the boy's mother may be Mrs. Lawson but she doesn't recognize him leaving Hardie in a quandary.
Episode 4
The Golden Owl
Mon, Sep 29, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is on a stage from San Francisco to Virginia City, Nevada with the lovely Mary Farnum who says she is on the way to New Orleans to marry an older man, Mr. Casey. They arrive at their destination where Hardie learns from the local agent that the traveling bag he carried is holding a $100,000 solid gold owl from China. Sam Banktort has bought the statue for his wife for their anniversary as a reminder that they met when he killed her pet owl. Hardie and the clerk Benson leave to drop the owl with Banktort but are attacked on the way. Benson is killed with a Chinese dagger while Hardie is knocked out. Hardie and the Sheriff drop the owl off with the owner but a Chinese man, Mr. Soo, arrives to tell how the statue was stolen in China and that he is charged with buying it back. Hearing Hardie's story, he inspects it determining it has been replaced with a gold plated lead copy. Hardie has one day to find it.
Episode 5
Faster Gun
Mon, Oct 6, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie tracks Johnny Reno whose has been hitting Wells Fargo hard to Messina where Reno is able to outdraw Hardie. While Hardie recovers from the wound in a hospital, he is visited by Mr. Savage from the district office. Knowing that Hardie won't be ready to go into the field for some time due to the wound, he offers him a promotion to District Superintendent, an office job which Jim accepts. Hardie is replaced by Jack Simmons who visits Jim in the hospital. Jim considers him to be a bounty hunter although Jack dislikes the title. Once Hardie returns to work in a new office, he finds he doesn't like it as he sees Reno still on the loose. He decides to ask to return to the field but it may mean trouble for the unlucky agent at El Paso where Reno continues to strike.
Episode 6
Butch Cassidy
Mon, Oct 13, 195830 mins
Butch Cassiidy is released from prison after promising to not cause anymore problems in Wyoming. On the train to Lander he is met by an old outlaw friend, Idaho, who tells Cassidy that he and others are planning to hold the train up at Wilcox and wonders if Cassidy would like to join them since he brought Cassidy a pistol. Cassidy, however, turns down the offer as he has other plans at Lander. At Lander he is celebrating his freedom with the crowd of local ranchers many who are friends and Boxcar Annie who runs the saloon. Jim Hardie who Boxcar recognizes enters. She warns Cassidy who decides to go say hi again to Hardie who asks Cassidy to join him. Hardie mentions the train robbery by saying he is not there because of it. Cassidy admits being on the train but refuses to divulge who held it up. Cassidy turns down the job offer. While they are talking, Boxcar stops Idaho and his henchmen from entering because of Hardie. They try to kill Hardie when he leaves but soon Hardie and Cassidy both learn they are in trouble.
Episode 7
End of the Trail
Mon, Oct 20, 195830 mins
Wells Fargo is often responsible for providing supplies and communications to remote areas that are not served by the train system. One of the areas is the Black Hills region in the Dakotas. Wells Fargo has a crew there trying to build a road for its freighters and stages but they are being harassed by the Pawnee tribe led by Iron Hand. The group's hunter Newt Stover was killed a month ago by the Pawnee. After that the foreman Fred Heston called the 5th Cavalry in but when the Pawnee attacked River Fork the cavalry had to return. The camp and men are being harassed but never in a pitched battle. Jim Hardie is sent there to see if he can resolve the problems. He arrives finding the men hungry and mad. During his first night one of the men, Ben, catches a young Pawnee brave trying to steal into the camp. Hardie seeing he is young and trying to kill his first man, decides on a plan of action but the men give him little chance of success or survival.
Episode 8
A Matter of Honor
Mon, Nov 3, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is sent to Medicine River to help start a new branch office and stage line to Cameron City. When he arrives, he is greeted by a young Cheyenne brave, Running Horse, who is working at the office doing menial jobs. He asks Hardie if he remembers him as he knew Hardie when he was a young boy. He has gone to a mission school and is trying to live in the white world by the white man's laws. With employees hard to find due to the gold strike, Hardie accepts Fenton Hurley's offer of his employee Joe Bates as shotgun but decides to hire Running Horse as the driver of the stage. Hurley who is essentially the banker for the town is strongly against Running Horse. Running Horse has second thoughts about the job as well due to his brothers threats against the stage but Running Horse keeps it to himself.
Episode 9
The Most Dangerous Man Alive
Mon, Nov 10, 195830 mins
John Leslie Nagel was considered the most dangerous man in the west with a $25,000 bounty on his head and thirty-four notches on his gun. Jim Hardie was to learn the man might, however, have a different side to him. Wells Fargo was having trouble with the Manning brothers who had hit them several times in Cochise Flats. Their pattern of operation said they would now head for Mexico but Hardie happened to have a head start on them being a day closer to Mexico. He is riding for Ghost Wells when he finds a dead horse and then a man passed out on the ground. When he tries to help the man, the man pulls a gun on him. He is Nagel who takes Hardie's gun, water, and horse telling Hardie if he is lucky he might make Ghost Wells the next day. Hardie on foot eventually passes out but luckily Nagel returns for him. They make Ghost Wells where there is one old man, Jake Rivers, with a saloon/store. Nagel doesn't trust Hardie who has no interest in Nagel but Hardie soon learns why Nagel is there and the other side of Nagel.
Episode 10
The Gunfighter
Mon, Nov 17, 195830 mins
Wells Fargo has sent Jim Hardie to Comanche, Texas to find the Rucker brothers who are known to be hanging around there. Pete Rucker having a scar on his face is his only clue so he decides to enter the town as Bill Henshaw with a horse that will draw attention. The idea works when a Mr. Maguire immediately asks Hardie if he would be interested in racing Maguire's young mare. As they are talking, a man interrupts them calling Hardie Jim. Jim tells him he must be mistaken. Maguire tells Hardie that is John Wesley Hardin talking to him. Hardie introduces himself as Mr. Henshaw to Hardin who then asks to talk to Hardie, alone. Hardin thinking Hardie is there for him is still not happy to hear Hardie is after the Rucker brothers who are his cousins. He wants Hardie out of town. Hardie meets Hardin's beautiful wife Jane and complicating matters is Sheriff Welch from another town who knows Hardie and wants to take down Hardin. The Ruckers show but the nefarious sheriff wants Hardie gone so he gives him away.
Episode 11
The Deserter
Mon, Nov 24, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie has been sent by Wells Fargo to Fort Chaplin to confer with Colonel Howard Meston about the area. With the signing of a peace treaty with the Mescalero Apache the fort is being shuttered and the men dispersed to other locations. They are concerned with a rash of robberies in the area that rumor has being performed by a gang led by Army officer William Rath who deserted. Meston cannot confirm Rath is leading the gang but believes he stole the Fort's Army payroll from the safe as only he and the Colonel had the combination to the safe. Rath's wife of three years is also there looking for him after hearing the rumors. Mrs. Rath, Hardie and the sutler, George Pierce, are on the last stage out of the fort before the soldiers leave. The stage is held up confirming that Rath is the leader as he opens the door to the stage.
Episode 12
The Killer
Mon, Dec 1, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is assigned to guard a stagecoach carrying a large amount of money and Senator Claymore. During a short stop to rest the horses the Senator dismounts from the stage to stretch his legs when a shot rings out. No one is hit and Hardie can't find any sign of the shooter. When they reach town, the local Wells Fargo agent gives Hardie a message that explains it is the Senator who is in danger. Someone has sent a warning to Wells Fargo who has assigned Hardie to protect Senator Claymore. After ensuring the Senator is safely in his room, Hardie visits the saloon where Bud Crawford introduces himself as the person who warned Wells Fargo. He tells Hardie that his dad and two other men have hired a gunman who is standing across the room to kill the Senator because of his land bill to turn over the rancher's land to which they have no title to homesteaders. When the Senator refuses to obey Hardie's precautions, Hardie devices a plan to keep him safe until he can stop the killing.
Episode 13
The Counterfeiters
Mon, Dec 8, 195830 mins
The counterfeiting of money was made easier when paper money was introduced. Wells Fargo uses its own paper Bills of Exchange to move large sums of money. They are printed with a proprietary green ink that only Wells Fargo has. Someone has created a near perfect plate but they still don't have access to the right ink. They caught George Kendall in San Francisco with several of the bills. While he is in jail awaiting trial, Hardie tries to get him to talk but with no success. Hardie realizes the one place none of the fake bills has been passed is El Paso, Texas so he decides to head there where he has some luck using Kendall's name with Kendall's wife Joyce. However, unknown to Hardie George Kendall has escaped jail.
Episode 14
Cow Town
Mon, Dec 15, 195830 mins
While in Abilene, Kansas Hardie gets word to go to Amity, Kansas where a robbery occurred. The Amity office is a remote office shared with the Kansas-Illinois Railroad which is common in small towns. Someone sneaked up behind agent Joe Rivers, knocked him out, and stole $3,200 from the open safe. After Hardie arrives, he is surprised by Mike Forbes who is the investigator for the Kansas-Illinois Railroad. By examining what happened together they determine the robber was left-handed and probably wearing moccasins. At Charlie Gill's casino they find Luke Stevens playing cards who fits the bill. Within a day a second robbery takes place when a box for Pete Henry is stolen, his son shot in the office and the clerk stabbed. This robbery has them baffled until Pete arrives.
Episode 15
The Happy Tree
Mon, Dec 22, 195830 mins
Jim Hardie is called to death row by Jake Kramer arriving an hour before Kramer hangs. Hardie is the one who arrested Kramer for killing a Wells Fargo messenger. Kramer has a 12 year old son Jimmy who is in an orphanage. Jimmy due to a hard life is a troubled boy who causes lots of trouble. Kramer tells Hardie he can retrieve the gold Kramer stole if he can change Jimmy into a good boy and convince him to tell where the gold is hidden. Hardie accepts the request and challenge. He decides to take the boy to the Benson family headed by ex-outlaw Hank Benson. He and his wife Martha would like to adopt Jimmy but he resists their attention. Kramer had a partner who wants his share of the loot and therefore Jimmy who is the only one who knows where the gold is hidden.
Episode 16
The Dealer
Mon, Dec 29, 195830 mins
Wells Fargo has brought Jim Hardie in on a holdup case at Yuba City where a significant amount of money was stolen. Jim has heard the two men are in Dodge City so he is headed there by stagecoach to look for them. About eleven miles outside Dodge City the stage comes to a sudden halt. Langford Peel with his wife Florence and son Tommy have been stranded for three days with a broken wheel. Jim stays with them to resolve the broken wheel problem by using a log to support the wagon. In Dodge City Peel buys Jim a drink to repay him and becomes intrigued with a poker game with big stakes. Peel having a gambling addiction joins the game and loses the family's cash. However, when he returns with a gun , Jim intercedes and wins in an unexpected way as the dealer.
Episode 17
Showdown Trail
Mon, Jan 5, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie is transporting prisoner Ed Dooley to San Francisco by train when it is forced to stop by wood piled on the track by Joe Dooley and his two sons. They want Ed but Jim is handcuffed to Ed. Jim says he mailed the key ahead to San Francisco. Joe shoots and kills Wells Fargo agent Steve Adams trying to force Jim to produce the key. As Jim truly doesn't have the key, he is forced to leave with the gang. They ride to George Samson's farm where they use a hammer and chisel to break the cuffs. As soon as they are cut apart, Jim sees a chance to run and escape otherwise he is a dead man. Despite Ed's pleas, Joe decides to forget Jim but Jim wants not only Ed but Joe as well now pitting one man against a four man gang.
Episode 18
Luke Frazer
Mon, Jan 12, 195925 mins
Jim pursues Luke Frazer for murder right after he guns Bud Scanlon down. Hardie apprehends the gunslinger who's worried his impressionable brother Johnny is following in his footsteps. Hardie decides to help prevent that from happening.
Episode 19
Wild Cargo
Mon, Jan 19, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie is planning to Deadhead alone on the stage to Oro Gulch to pick up a gold shipment. Jim is looking forward to the downtime snoozing in the coach alone when the driver awakens him to inform him a four woman entertainment troupe, The Loren Sisters, will be riding with him. As they prepare to board the coach four men hold up the bank across the street and one man is killed. As Jim reaches for his gun, he finds it missing. One of the women, Sis, who wanted to see it had taken it. One of the women Molly is quite quiet on the trip. When they reach the first stop, it comes to Jim who she is. She went to prison for perjury for a year to protect Joe Shields, a thief and her boyfriend, who escaped. When the stage is stopped by the same gang that held up the bank, Jim's sense of trouble is heightened.
Episode 20
The Cleanup
Mon, Jan 26, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie is being sent to Silver City after Wells Fargo receives a letter from Mr. Casey, the local agent, that a local gang is trying to extort money from all the businesses including Wells Fargo to do business there. Hardie arrives to find that Mr. Casey was murdered the day before. Jason, the handyman, tells him that much but won't volunteer any other information and decides to leave town for his own safety. He does tell Hardie that Jim Haney is sheriff who was known for his good work in Abilene but Haney is now old and drinking. Hardie's first stop is to visit Haney who says he can do nothing as he is too old. The town was quiet when he started but Matt Carson and his men moved in and are too much for him. Hardie decides to try to rally the local citizens with the help of Lucy Haney, the sheriff's daughter, but the people being from the east are afraid.
Episode 21
Fort Massacre
Mon, Feb 2, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie is riding on a stage as shotgun guard carrying the Army payroll for Fort Laramie. The stage is supposed to be met by an Army patrol led by Major Nesbitt from Fort Anderson but instead three Apaches attack killing the driver. Hardie is able to repel the others and make it to Fort Anderson. He has one passenger, Mrs. Oliver, the wife of an officer at Fort Laramie. There he learns that Fort Anderson is barely manned and low on supplies. Major Nesbitt was to return with supplies and replacements as well as meet the stage. A bit later Major Nesbitt's body arrives on a horse propped up with a lance in his back. It is a pretty clear sign that Major Nesbitt's patrol has been wiped out. Sgt. Condon and the men are worried as Lt. Kimball, the lone officer, is green and lost. The Army was not his wish but his family always had a member attend West Point from which he did graduate. He and Hardie discuss the situation with Kimball initially hitting the bottle for strength but Hardie keeps his faith in the Lieutenant as the Apaches test the fort.
Episode 22
The Town That Wouldn't Talk
Mon, Feb 9, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie has been sent to check on the death of a Wells Fargo employee at a remote town. They received notification with no indication of what he died of. Along the way Hardie notices some men burying a cow which is unusual. He arrives in the town and checks in to the hotel. The clerk Justin Peevey remembers the employee when asked by Hardie. He says he is buried outside of town and died of natural causes. As he goes to his room he hears moans out of a room across the hall. When Hardie comes down for dinner there is an elderly man sitting in a chair shaking. Mr. Peevey says the man, Jansen, is drunk. When the man keels over onto the floor Hardie checks him. He tells Peevey the man does not smell of alcohol and he is dead. Upon returning to his room a woman, Marsha Cook, is running around looking for her husband Ed cook, the man who was moaning earlier. She tells Hardie about him being sick and her sick son still in his bed. Upon seeing the problems, Hardie despite protests from Peevey rides to the next town for a doctor who says he suspects an anthrax outbreak which has Hardie realizing what is happening and why the employee died.
Episode 23
Lola Montez
Mon, Feb 16, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie has been sent to the New Mexico area to find and catch outlaw Zach Bradley who killed the Wells Fargo employee, Sam Bell. After four weeks on his trail Hardie has caught him and is now returning the outlaw to Tucson for trial. They are going by stage with three other passengers. These include the famous Irish-born Spanish dancer Lola Montez plus her piano accompanist, Chris Hurley and a businessman, Mr. Collins. On the trail about two miles from the next relay station two Apaches stop the stage. Hardie talks to the leader who tells Jim they want Bradley as well for killing a squaw and her son. Hardie refuses to turn him over telling them he is headed for white man's justice which does not satisfy them. They reach the next relay station just before the Apaches attack.
Episode 24
The Branding Iron
Mon, Feb 23, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie was asked by Curly Brown, a past shotgun messenger, to stop by for a visit as they are old friends and worked together in the past. As Jim nears Curly's ranch a shot rings out but Jim is unharmed. He arrives to learn that Curly is dead; found shot by someone but the reason is unknown. Etta is determined to run the ranch by herself but it is too much for a lone woman with three young children plus she has much to learn. Jim, determined to find the killer, decides to stay and help her. The neighbor Paul Bravender who has tried to help Etta is worried that Jim suspects him so he brings out Sheriff Welk the next day but there is no evidence to find. Jim decides to take the family into town for a holiday and to spread the word he is staying to help Etta. He finds people lined up to buy the Brown ranch as it is prime land with water. He has set himself up as a target and it works faster than he expected.
Episode 25
The House I Enter
Mon, Mar 2, 195930 mins
As Jim Hardie enters a stable in Bentonville late at night after riding all day all he wants is food and a bed a gunshot rings out. Jim runs toward the Wells Fargo office. Agent Sam Riddle runs out of the office with a gun as one of the two holdup men shoots Sam and he falls to the ground. A second agent then gets a shot off wounding one outlaw who also dropped his gun. Jim runs up identifying himself so he isn't shot and tells the agent to get a posse as he takes off after the outlaws who stole $6,000. Being night he has no luck tracking them so the next day he checks with the local doctor, Wm. C/ Forrester, who it turns out Jim knows as he had to testify against him for being in a duel while in the Army. Forrester stills holds a grudge although he got off lightly for killing a man. He knows about the robbery from treating Sam Riddle but has heard nothing else until as they talk young Leroy Haggerty rides up for help. His older brother Ollie has shot himself accidentally which intrigues Jim who goes with them. He meets Leroy's pretty wife Tina. The doctor soon realizes Ollie has lied about how he was shot plus Leroy and Tina tell Jim Ollie has been with Vince Garner, the shooter. Ollie convinces the doctor to help him but Leroy lies for his brother giving him an alibi which ties Jim's hands for now.
Episode 26
The Legacy
Mon, Mar 9, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie has been sent to check on an estate that was bequeathed by Ed York to the son of a know outlaw, Bart Casement. Many think Ed York was Bart Casement. York's body was found with York having been shot in the head. His will left the homestead to Bob Casement who was raised in Ohio by a good family. As Casement gets off the train he is met by the rancher Jeff Parrish and his henchman. Parrish has the henchman beat up Casement and try to put him back on the train as Hardie walks up. Hardie stops them and introduces himself. He supports Casement and offers to ride out to the homestead with him. Meanwhile, Parrish complains to Sheriff Bob Gannon and his daughter Sally but the Sheriff says he will follow the rule of the law. When Hardie and Casement arrive at the homestead, they are met by two of Parrish's men who Hardie is able to disarm. Parrish wants the land to complete his ranch and will go to any lengths.
Episode 27
The Rawhide Kid
Mon, Mar 16, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie rides upon the Hampton place where he finds a man sitting outside in a chair shot in the head. Inside he finds a young girl also shot in the head. The man was holding a wanted poster that is 20 years old for the Rawhide Kid who was really Harlow Shelby. Shelby was sent to prison for 20 years but was recently released. Hearing a noise Hardie finds a young man passed out after crawling. He was only grazed in the head and soon recovers. Hardie finds the boy following him on the trail and someone takes a shot at the two of them. He refuses to leave Hardie so they travel on to a town where they find the horse Hardie is looking for which has a bar horseshoe on the left rear hoof. The girl, Norah Fuller, running the stable says the horse belongs to the doctor across the street. They find the doctor dead shot in the head. Norah's father, Sheriff Fuller, denies knowing about the Rawhide Kid but Hardie soon learns the killer hasn't left town.
Episode 28
Toll Road
Mon, Mar 23, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie has been sent to set up a new route and the stations on it. In one town Sheriff Tom Huckaby is running for re-election after having the job for ten years but he is slowing down. A man was shot there by Buff Coart who has returned to town but the sheriff refuses to confront him until a grand jury returns an indictment even with an offer of help from Hardie. When the man shot dies, the sheriff is forced to go after Buff. Hardie follows but is ambushed by the sheriff until they recognize each other. They then go to the Blue Rock station which Hardie just staffed with a an ex-drunk running it who has a good work reputation. The stage stops there for a meal which is interrupted by Buff Coart who appears while everyone is eating.
Episode 29
The Tired Gun
Mon, Mar 30, 195930 mins
For a change Jim Hardie is off work enjoying a game of poker when he is dealt a hand of four aces. Before play can start, pretty Pearl Watkins enters the saloon demanding to talk to Jim immediately. He is forced to pass on the hand to listen to her privately. Her brother Ira has arrived back in town and is asleep at her house. She is worried he is turning into an outlaw although she does not know what he has been up to. Wells Fargo has no interest in him so Jim volunteers to talk to him. He finds him asleep on a bed so he awakens him with a distraction as Ira awakens shooting. It is apparent Jim has no influence on him and his sister says their mother spoiled him. Before long Ira with the other five members of the Bill Tobey gang hit the Wells Fargo bank in Clarksville. Jim is now after the gang but is captured by Ira. The gang leaves him alive but stranded and tied up.
Episode 30
Terry
Mon, Apr 6, 195930 mins
While in the area Jim Hardie stops by a Wells Fargo relay station that has reported the theft of several horses. He is greeted at the door by the pretty and young Terry (Theresa) Tate who is a tomboy in all ways. Her father Sam runs the relay station. Sam tells Jim that the horses not being branded yet were stolen only a couple of days after they were bought from the local horse trader Homer Beasley. It was before he had a chance to brand them. The horses were stolen the night he took Terry to a barn raising with the hope she would meet a young man leaving the station unattended. Jim follows up with Homer who confirms Sam's story and produces a bill of sale for the horses from Mexico where they don't brand horses normally. He and his hand, Charley, say they were both at the stable the night the horses were stolen. Terry who is interested in neighbor Jack Barton is shocked when Homer arrives to tell Jim that he spotted some of the stolen horses in Jack's corral.
Episode 31
The Last Stand
Mon, Apr 13, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie is sent to accompany a large and delayed payroll to a mine at Daleyville. When the train arrives, the local agent George Long has handyman Pat Rankin harness a team and wagon so Long can pickup the payroll and Jim. Pat feels under utilized but in reality is now a drunk and unreliable. Due to his one time killing of a major criminal, Jim upon hearing about his situation has gotten him the job he has. At the station they transfer the money box to the wagon. Jim scanning the crowd spots a man, Nick Bevans, a known outlaw. When Bevans draws down on Jim, Hardie shoots him. His two partners call off their plan. They soon find a new plan when Pat blows up at Jim and quits.
Episode 32
Bob Dawson
Mon, Apr 20, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie makes a visit to check on his parole Bob Dawson. As usual he finds Dawson in the saloon regaling the crowd with stories of his exploits. They leave for a cup of coffee at the cafe where Dawson introduces Jim to Sarah Young who along with her father, a broke faro player, rewrite his memoirs into readable English. Later, Jim hears an explosion. Racing down the street he finds that an attempt has been made to rob the Wells Fargo office. Jim meets the Marshal who is already inside. Dynamite was used but they failed to open the safe but they killed Ned Porter who sleeps in the back. The robbers had tunneled in from the land office next door. The methodology is a copy of one Dawson used 27 years earlier so the Marshal wants to lock Dawson up for it.
Episode 33
The Tall Texan
Mon, Apr 27, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie is on his way to Wagner, Montana after Wells Fargo received an anonymous tip that some of Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall gang were going to attempt a robbery. Upon checking into the hotel, Jim notices Laurie Hammer sitting in the lobby. Jim knows her parents and that she ran away from home with outlaw Will Carver. He goes over to talk to her but she is not happy to see him although she does ask about her parents. Later, Jim visits the saloon where he runs into the Tall Texan, Ben Kilpatrick, a known outlaw and two other men who he does not recognize. After the they chat, Jim leaves. The three men decide it is time to take care of Jim before he causes trouble.
Episode 34
Doc Holliday
Mon, May 4, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie is stopping in Big Rock to catch a stage when he notices a big crowd in front of the office. A couple of the bystanders tell him there was a holdup and $50,000 to $100,000 was stolen. He enters the office to speak with the agent, Mr. Conway. He tells Jim that $50,000 in new bills for San Francisco was stolen and two men killed. While in the office Doc Holliday enters looking for a stage to Cheyenne but there is none until the next day. He and Jim greet each other as they have met before in Tombstone. Doc tells Jim his wife Amy is following him but he is wanting to leave her. The sheriff is on the trail but returns to say a big wind storm came up and wiped out all tracks. He and Jim agree to pass around the serial numbers on the stolen money. Jim sees Doc in a big poker game and interrupted by Amy. He gives her some money to get her to leave and the next day she tells Jim it turns out to be some of the stolen money and she thinks Doc pulled the holdup.
Episode 35
Kid Curry
Mon, May 11, 195930 mins
Kid Curry has been involved in several robberies but has stayed under the radar until he hits Wells Fargo at Blue Cross, Wyoming. Wells Fargo brings Jim Hardie in to catch Kid Curry. Kid Curry has left the west for Knoxville, Tennessee where he has won a pool game but the young men he is playing are unwilling to pay him the $150 owed. A fight breaks out that brings the attention of the police when Kid Curry's friend Cype Turner shoots one of the players. Kid Curry who wants his money is slow to leave so when the police enter he is shot in the shoulder and the two officers are shot by him. Turner refuses to stick around or help but tells Kid Curry he can be found through his girlfriend in Colorado. Hardie captures the wounded Kid Curry but Curry says next time he won't be taken alive. When he escapes jail, Hardie is forced to take him again.
Episode 36
The Little Man
Mon, May 18, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie is in Clay City when the stage from Wolf Creek arrives with the two passengers driving it. The Wells Fargo employees are in the stage dead plus the cash was stolen. The passengers say two men held them up. Their names are Marty Saunders ("Little Man") and Jeff Peters. Saunders is a very short and thin man but he seems confident of his abilities. Marty says he is a rancher and Jeff is his foreman. Their movements in town show they are capable gunmen. Later, that night shots ring out. When Hardie investigates, he finds a drummer, Frank Lucas, shot and then is knocked out. At the site of the holdup and the shooting Hardie has found some evidence that main point out the shooter.
Episode 37
The Daltons
Mon, May 25, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie has been sent to capture the Dalton gang by Wells Fargo after several railroad express shipments are hit. Jim wanted the job as he worked with Bob Dalton who was a U.S. Deputy Marshal a couple of years earlier. Knowing the family Jim decides to start with the family homestead where Ma Dalton lives. When she recognizes Jim, she invites him inside where she learns why he is there which disappoints her. Although not expected, Bob and Emmett Dalton along with gang member Turk Cowley show up hoping to see their mother. They spot Jim's horse so they approach the house quietly until one of their horses gives them away. Jim tries to capture them but instead finds himself their prisoner with Turk wanting to kill him.
Episode 38
The Bounty Hunter
Mon, Jun 1, 195930 mins
A train is stopped and robbed of $10,000 near Latimer with three railroad men wounded. One of the two robbers was shot on the scene and died later but the younger man of the pair escaped with the money. The robber who died gave the name and details about the younger robber but it was the older Silver Logan who did all the shooting. Jim Hardie is sent in to investigate the robbery by Wells Fargo. He meets with their agent Roy and railroad agent Lucas Rainey. Lucas tells them a $500 reward dead or alive is being posted for Dan Francis which Jim and Roy are not happy about as it means every gun happy man will be out to kill him but Wells Fargo wants the $10,000 returned. The Sheriff tells Jim one of the witnesses is in Latimer where Jim finds him along with a bounty hunter named Briscoe who tells Hardie to get lost. Jim soon learns Briscoe means business as he tracks the outlaw.
Episode 39
Clay Allison
Mon, Jun 15, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie has been sent to investigate a stolen Wells Fargo shipment of gambling equipment to Clay Allison. When Jim arrives, Allison is expecting a check for the stolen goods but Jim tells him that according to the contract Wells Fargo has 30 days after a theft is reported to issue the check. Allison had hoped to be the first place with gambling but due to the stolen shipment Ned Taggert has opened his saloon with gambling and is taking all the business. Allison says Sheriff Pat Hendrix made an effort for a couple of days to track the thief but had no luck. Jim asks where the Sheriff is as he would like to talk to him and Allison responds that he is probably in Taggert's playing poker. Both walk over to Taggert's saloon where the Sheriff is playing poker with Taggert with a beautiful blonde known as Duchess watching. The Sheriff agrees to talk to them privately. He provides the details of the robbery saying he lost the trail after a couple of days. When someone takes a shot at Hardie that night, he knows the thieve is in town.
