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Tales of Wells Fargo Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
37 Episodes 1959 - 1960
Episode 1
Young Jim Hardie
Mon, Sep 7, 195930 mins
A reporter,Mallory Butler, stops in at the San Francisco Wells Fargo office to see Tom Clark about contacting Jim Hardie to do a story on him as part of a series. Jim is not in but Tom Clark who hired Jim is willing to give his early history. Jim was from Louisiana on a horse farm when his dad died when Jim was nineteen. Shortly afterwards Jim sold the farm and moved his mother to New Orleans. Jim a drifter showed up in Sweet Slumber, Texas where Clark had opened a new office. Jim rode in tired and hungry looking to pawn his gun. Gunsmith Jackson agrees to give him $20 for it. Jim heads to the saloon where Big Willy Crane along with his gang has taken over. Jim is liked by Crane who buys him a meal and hires him to blow a bridge. When Jim returns, he learns he has aided in Crane preparing to hang the Judge that hanged Crane's four brothers.
Episode 2
Desert Showdown
Mon, Sep 14, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie is with a four man Army patrol led by Sgt. Tyler sent to Mexico to pick up the prisoner Yaqui Kid captured by Mexico. They are to return him to Fort Apache where he will be tried and probably hanged. Hardie is along to get the Kid to tell where he has hidden the money he stole from Wells Fargo. The local Mexican officer apologizes for not being able to provide an escort plus the group must also take along the Yaqui Kid's wife Rita who has been staying with him at the jail. If forced to leave, she will kill herself. Hardie tries to protect Rita from the soldiers but he soon senses some Yaquis are following them. They soon find themselves left with no horses when the guard leaves them and the men are picked off one by one.
Episode 3
The Warrior's Return
Mon, Sep 21, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie has been sent to Cripple Hill to try to recover $15,000 stolen from a Wells Fargo stagecoach by Soldier O'Malley who was a champion fighter in the past. O'Malley is also being charged with killing Marshal Joe Landers by breaking his neck which puzzles Jim who knows O'Malley. He can't believe he is a killer. Jim stops at the Marshal's office where Ben, the deputy, refuses to allow Jim to talk to O'Malley until the new marshal is back. With O'Malley in front of him Jim tries to talk to him but when Ben tries to stop them Hardie takes his rifle and O'Malley knocks him out. O'Malley won't tell where the money is but he tells Jim that he did not kill the Marshal which Jim tends to believe. A bit later the new Marshal, Luther Delahandy, along with his deputies tell Jim to leave town but when he refuses they arrest him. Jim escapes but so does O'Malley with the help of some dynamite.
Episode 4
The Jackass
Fri, Aug 28, 195930 mins
Wells Fargo is having trouble with a rash of robberies in Leadville so they send Jim Hardie to clean up the problem. On the ride from Salida to Leadville he is with an elderly lady who is worried about her $40 being stolen. Hardie tries to reassure her until the stage is held up and she pulls a derringer on him to prevent him from fighting them. She takes his gun belt, wallet, and hat with her as she rides off with the four robbers as well as the money on the stage. Upon reaching Leadville he has a reception committee with several of the local citizens and a jackass wearing his hat and gun belt. He is offered a drink at the saloon which he accepts. He is seated with a beautiful female dealer named Gilda. As he waits for his drink, one of the men calls him a coward telling him to stand and draw. Hardie refuses to accept the challenge and leaves the saloon. He returns to the Wells Fargo office with the drunk agent Stanley. There he shows why he declined the challenge as all of his bullets have no powder.
Episode 5
The Stage Line
Mon, Oct 5, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie has been sent on a different task this time. No robbers but the job of inspecting and buying a small line as a new feeder line for Wells Fargo. As he gets off the train he is met by young Joe Braddock who is hoping to sell Wells Fargo their stage line. Joe is ready to complete the deal but Jim wants to inspect the equipment and line first. The stage line has one old stage and two four horse teams plus the base station. There is one relay station but they rent it. Jim also wants to ride the line to see it for himself so he and Joe head for the home base. Joe does the labor and his sister Ann takes care of the paperwork. They make a stop at the relay station where the horses are swapped out. Afterwards two men try to hold them up but Jim fiends them off by hitting one of them. At the base camp Jim meets Ann who is confined to a wheelchair after an accident on a horse. They are selling so they can go back east for an operation on Ann but money is a problem and becomes one for Jim as well when the local banker asks him to haul $20,000 in gold.
Episode 6
The Train Robbery
Mon, Oct 12, 195930 mins
When Wells Fargo receives an anonymous tip that a shipment of old paper money to be burned may be hit by the Coyle brothers, they send Jim Hardie to oversee the shipment and its security. The Coyle brothers led by Matt contact the Dane brothers Gig and Slim to see if they want in on the robbery which can net them a half a million dollars. Their plan is to dynamite a woodpile when the train stops to pick up wood to knock everyone out and then dynamite the rail car door to steal the money. Hardie has guards with the money plus him and Wells Fargo employee Dick Gore are riding on the train as extra guards. The robbers ploy works leaving Dick and Jim to try to follow their trail. Dick and Jed Coyle are killed leaving Matt to take off with all the money which he hides. When Jim kills Matt, he refuses to tell where he hid it.
Episode 7
Double Reverse
Mon, Oct 19, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie makes a trip to Rock point but not on company business for a change. His close friend Josh Wilkins, a Wells Fargo agent, has asked Jim to stop by. When Jim enters the office, he is greeted by the clerk Ann Rawlins. Jim and Josh move to Josh's private office to talk. Josh asks Jim if he recognizes the name Rawlins which Jim does not. When Josh mentions Wilt Rawlins, Jim recognizes the name. Josh informs him that Wilt escaped jail a couple of weeks ago and he is Ann's husband. They have a boy Jody. Josh trusts Ann but feels he should inform Wells Fargo. Jim's initial response is that Josh should fire Ann but Josh refuses to. Jim drives Ann home where he notices a horse but Ann claims it is Jody's. Back at the office Josh confirms the horse does not belong to Ann or Jody. The office handles gold shipments each week of around $40,000 so Jim is worried.
Episode 8
Tom Horn
Mon, Oct 26, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie is on the Tucson run between Membrey Spring and Cow Creek Station when he spots a man about to be lynched. He has them stop the stage and walks over to the tree. He asks the reason and is told the man is about to use a running bar to re-brand a cow. Jim tells them this is no longer sanctioned and that the man held up a Wells Fargo stage which is a lie and as a Wells Fargo agent he is going to take the man into Tucson to Sheriff Bates to stand trial. The foreman, J. K. Russell, of the Hash Knife Land and Cattle Company decides to turn the man and his horse over to Jim. At a stopover the man escapes when Jim unties him to stretch. Jim is forced to chase him into Apache territory where Broken Hand is on the warpath. An Army Sgt. tells Jim that the young man saved the children of family from the Apaches. Despite the danger Jim continues on only to find himself Broken Hand's prisoner.
Episode 9
The Quiet Village
Mon, Nov 2, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie arrives in Kimball just after a stage has arrived and handed off the money aboard to the agent Henry Belman. As the stage drives away a man Jess Wilson walks up to Henry with a shotgun motioning for him to go into the office. A couple of shots ring out followed by Wilson running out of the office, leaping onto his horse and racing out of town. Jim races to the shots killing one of the three robbers and runs into the office finding Henry wounded with one of three robbers dead. They put out a poster on Jess Wilton but the description of him is so generic they receive a large volume of clues but later a clue comes in from Sheriff Sam Reach at Buttonwillow that causes Jim to follow up on it. The Sheriff tells Jim that he doubts it is the man as Jess Wilton has turned the life around for the recluse, Louise Sinclair, since her son and husband died. Initially his refusal to run makes it appear he isn't their man.
Episode 10
Home Town
Mon, Nov 16, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie sent Matthew Land to prison for three years when he and two other men robbed $10,000 from Wells Fargo. The money was never recovered and only Land was captured. He has been released and is on the stage back to his home town of Pueblo. Most of the people there are not looking forward to his return other than his parents who own a leather shop and his girlfriend Ella Carrey. Land had a job as a driver for Wells Fargo when he robbed the company. Jim Hardie has followed him to Pueblo and when everyone including the local Wells Fargo agent Mr. Drake turn him down for a job, Jim offers him his old job back on the Denver run. Mr. Drake contacts the office to report it while Jim has someone else on his mind.
Episode 11
End of a Legend
Mon, Nov 23, 195930 mins
A homeless man known as Old John for ten years is in an alley when three men hold up the Wells Fargo Bank. The men run through the alley and the last one shoves a pistol in Old John's hand and throws him out into the street. When the Sheriff recovers the pistol, it has the name Johnny Caine engraved in the grip. Johnny Caine is the name off an outlaw that has been inactive for ten years. Old John claims he is really Johnny Caine although the Sheriff doesn't believe it. Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to investigate as he knows Johnny Caine. He immediately knows the truth but Old John likes the recognition he is receiving. To save him from hanging Jim must find the real robbers. Jim knows the location of the real Johnny Caine so he travels there. He sneaks into the barn where he finds the Wells Fargo money sack. Johnny shows up saying he must kill Jim but his wife Elsie intervenes in their fight. Both Jim and Johnny know who is really behind the robbery.
Episode 12
Return of Doc Bell
Mon, Nov 30, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie is sent to help guard a $50,000 gold shipment from the Scripture Mine to Clay City for shipment, A holdup gang decides to steal it while it is on the train as there will be fewer guards. As Jim and the agent Joe Huggins move the gold into the Wells Fargo safe, Joe informs Jim that the town has not welcomed back Doc Bell who was paroled from prison to Jim who originally captured him. Doc Bell has written Jim asking him to stop by as he needs to talk. Jim learns that Doc wants to move to another town where he is not known but he needs Jim's permission. Jim okay's the move but decides to ride with the gold when he learns it and Doc Bell will be on the same train. The outlaws steal the gold and make it look like Doc Bell was part of the robbery. They take him with them as one of the gang was mortally wounded.
Episode 13
Woman with a Gun
Mon, Dec 7, 195930 mins
After a Wells Fargo stagecoach was held up after leaving San Anselmo with $50,000 taken and the shotgun guard killed, Jim Hardie is sent to investigate. When he arrives, he asks the local agent Tom Klinger for the manifest and report on the stage. A local rancher, a widow, shipped the $50,000 in bullion but Tom says this is an unusual shipment for them but he has high regard for Mrs. Linda De Vega who owns the large Rancho De Vega and that he checked the shipment. Jim remarks that it would not be the first time someone tried to double their money. Jim hands some posters to handyman Lonnie Tate to hang around town. Jim leaves to visit Sheriff Ray Coffee who although in a gruff hurry is willing to answer some quick questions about the location of the robbery. Jim heads back to his horse when he sees Lonnie tossed out of a bar. Lonnie tells him Billy Brunell stopped him. Jim enters and receives the same greeting from Billy but this time Billy goes out the door but returns to confront Jim who must shoot him. Jim then rides out to the robbery site where the tracks lead to Rancho De Vega.
Episode 14
Long Odds
Mon, Dec 14, 195930 mins
Three men lead by Joe Dangler are planning to rob a Wells Fargo shipment out of Prairie Lea. Jim Hardie has been sent by Wells Fargo to ride guard on this large shipment out of the normally quiet town. As he has several friends there Jim Hardie arrives early so he can visit with them. One of them is a young woman he helped three years earlier to escape her boyfriend, Joe Dangler, who went to prison in Utah for three years. Jim is greeted by several friends including the local agent Spoon. When they leave a restaurant, Jim notices Dangler ride in and enter the saloon. Jim leaves Spoon to talk to Dangler in the saloon where people are surprised when Jim does not react to Dangler's insults. Jim tries to keep Lorna's secret but later the bartender tells Dangler about her which sets up confrontations among Lorna , Jim and Dangler.
Episode 15
Wanted: Jim Hardie
Mon, Dec 21, 195930 mins
Wade Donnellan is a shrewd outlaw with a mean streak in the southwest who has never been captured or spent a day in jail. His smarts has protected him but when his sly sense of humor makes him decide to go after Jim Hardie he might get more than he bargained for. His large gang pulled a $40,000 robbery near the Wells Fargo Standpat office. Jim Hardie is sent there to shut down his gang. Upon knowing Jim is in the area, Wade pins a note to the office in Standpat that he is posting a $1,000 reward for Hardie dead. He knows his men will try to win it but his hope is that Hardie will stop a few of them shrinking his gang which is getting too large to manage. Jim decides to take advantage of Wade's reward when the gang tries to ambush him.
Episode 16
Relay Station
Mon, Dec 28, 195930 mins
Jim Hardie is on the trail to Turkey Crossing Relay Station for Wells Fargo when he comes across a young man badly wounded in the shoulder. Being close to the relay station he takes the wounded man there where the reception is very icy. The agent there Walter Farr has just been buried leaving his daughter, Susan, and the new hostler, Henry Brock. Brock wants the two of them to move on as Jim hasn't identified himself. Susan refuses to turn the two men out so Jim suggests they treat the wounded man outside. The wounded man's horse is spent so they are unable to travel even after he recovers somewhat. In the house the telegraph is clattering away but Susan and Brock can't understand it. That night Jim trails Brock who climbs a telegraph line pole and sends out a message which Jim can read. Jim now realizes the trap he is in. He reveals his identity to Susan and the wounded man who happens to play a part in the situation as well.
Episode 17
Cole Younger
Mon, Jan 4, 196030 mins
Jim Hardie is on a rare vacation near Northfield, Minnesta with the Lars Hegelund family who has a spunky young girl, Inger. While Jim is fishing the Jesse James and Cole Younger gangs hold up the bank in Northfield. Jim hears the gunfire in town and the gangs leave via the road above where Jim is fishing. He overhears them split up and recognizes the members from past dealings with them. He drives into town to tell them to put a wire out about who was in the gang. The telegrapher is hesitant until Hardie gives his name. Jim returns to the Hegelund farm where the parents are going to help a neighbor have a baby leaving Inger with Jim. While completing chores in the barn, the two hide when three members of the Younger gang including Cole ride in. Inger's cough gives her away and she is knocked out when she falls from the hay loft ladder. Cole sends the others to the rendezvous while he and Jim care for Inger.
Episode 18
The Easterner
Mon, Jan 11, 196030 mins
A man picks the lock to the baggage car on a train and has a shoot out with the two men in the car which includes the clerk who is killed. At the next stop the sheriff investigates and the local Wells Fargo agent retrieves $50,000 from the safe giving it to Jim Hardie who has been sent to carry the money on the rest of its journey by stagecoach to Yellowknife. The owner of the money, Dan Mulvaney, is there to accompany Jim and the money. At Yellowknife his brother has a deal for him to buy a ranch with the money. Mulvaney is a successful attorney from back east and is dressed as one. He was in the baggage car and was slightly wounded in the shoot out where outlaw "Fancy" Fred Gibson was killed. Accompanying them on the stage is pretty Arlene Howell who both men recognize. She is part of the first robbery attempt on the stage but not the last.
Episode 19
The Governor's Visit
Mon, Jan 18, 196030 mins
Governor Carson is running for reelection in Wyoming with one of his issues being the expansion of the railroad from Casper across the state. While campaigning in Casper, Sheriff Parker raises the fact that much of Wyoming is controlled by outlaws. The governor says he has hired a man to clear the problems but at that moment the man comes in across a horse dead. The governor takes the stage to Powder River from Casper to campaign but arrives to find his welcoming party is saloon owner Kitty Flambeau and her six saloon girls as the citizens were scared away by Clancy the outlaw who controls the area. Jim Hardie arrives at the same time having been sent by Wells Fargo who also supports the railroad expansion. With Clancy and nine of his men arriving, the governor finds himself locked in a saloon with seven saloon women which will lose him the female vote in Wyoming.
Episode 20
The Journey
Mon, Jan 25, 196030 mins
Wells Fargo has sent Jim Hardie to accompany Vincent Dodd, a jeweler from back east, who is carrying $30,000 in gems on the stage coach portion of his journey. One attempt was made on the railroad when his hat was shot. Jim suggests they travel as if they don't know each other. The stage is driven by Shakey Haygood, an old friend of Jim's but with a new shotgun, Thompson, and several passengers. Besides Dodd and Hardie, there is the beautiful Sandra Morton who is a school teacher, Mr, Haggerity a saloon owner, Mr. Bodkins a gun salesman, and a Mr. Smith. At an over night stop Jim is lured outside as Dodd is hit in the head. At a second over night stop Jim has Dodd put the gems in the hotel safe where they are stolen putting Jim in the hot seat and several suspects to pick from.
Episode 21
The Canyon
Mon, Feb 1, 196030 mins
The gallows are being built and tested to hang Ken Gibbons in three days for committing murder while holding up a Wells Fargo stagecoach. He says he is innocent and Jim Hardie believes him. The passenger manifest says there was one passenger, Fred Kimball who can clear Gibbons. However, Kimball himself is wanted for stealing money by faking the books for a bank. He is believed to be hiding in an outlaw sanctuary called "The Canyon of Wanted Men" run by Len Garner. Hardie decides to assume the name of an outlaw in Yuma Prison named Bill Stample. Garner buys Jim's story telling him the cost to stay is 20% of any money he brings into the canyon. Kimball is not around but Jim soon meets his beautiful daughter Jane. Jim talks to her but first he must handle a man Red Cronin whose brother was killed by Stample.
Episode 22
Red Ransom
Mon, Feb 8, 196030 mins
Jim Hardie is working with the Chickasaw Wells Fargo Agent, Clay Arvin, to capture the Apache renegade outlaw Joe Black. The two men along with a couple of deputies capture Joe Black but unknown to them the local Apache chief Akana is watching them. After locking Joe Black in the local jail, Clay invites Jim home for dinner with his wife Clara and daughter Jenny. While there they learn Jenny has not returned so Clay and Jim ride out to look for her. As they find her berry picking basket, they are confronted by Akana who shows them he has Jenny. He wants to trade her for Joe Black, his brother, by the end of the next day. The city fathers meet on the issue and decide to turn Joe Black loose despite Jim and Luke the Marshal refusing to go along with the idea. However, they use Clara to trick Jim and release Joe Black. Jim goes after Joe Black after a delay and discovers Joe is not headed back to Akana.
Episode 23
The English Woman
Mon, Feb 15, 196030 mins
After a Wells Fargo stage arrives in Morgan with Jim Hardie riding shotgun, the passengers including two women from England disembark. Suddenly the older of the two women falls to the ground clutching her chest after a shot rings out. Jim Hardie recognizes the shot came from the roof of the hotel but by the time Jim and the Sheriff reach the roof the shooter is long gone. After talking to the daughter, they learn the women were looking for a man named Aquith from England who embezzled 20,000 pounds and framed her father for it who is now in prison. Only the mother could identify Aquith. Investigators have told them Aqith has been in Morgan for two years. Hardy decides to help the Sheriff who doesn't appreciate it finding there are four men in town who meet the description of Aquith.
Episode 24
Forty-Four Forty
Mon, Feb 29, 196030 mins
Jim Hardie is sent to Tucson, Arizona which is normally very quiet but has recently experienced a rash of stage holdups. He arrives after another holdup. Tom the driver tells him the regular guard who got drunk was fired and replaced by Mr. Gates who had no chance to shoot at the outlaws this time as four of them came from all directions. One passenger shot is being tended to by the local doctor who had to operate on him. However, the description of the wound given Jim by the doctor puzzles him. The driver's daughter Myra also tells Jim that he talked in his sleep about through and through. When Hank took a notched bullet out of the stage coach guard's seat Jim realizes who the outlaws are.
Episode 25
The Late Mayor Brown
Mon, Mar 7, 196030 mins
Jess Brown the Wells Fargo Agent in River Oaks has just been elected mayor of the town. He comes outside to give a thank you speech to the citizens. As he does his friend Miles Rogers drives up with his farm wagon. As Jess concludes his speech to return to work a train whistle blows and he falls to the ground - shot dead. Jim Hardie who is a friend of Jess is sent to investigate his murder. After the funeral he discusses the case with Marshal Dan Fogarty. The Marshal has locked up Ben Locust who was seen on a balcony watching the speech but he is sure Ben did not fire the shot as someone would have seen it. The other news is that the gunsmith says the fatal bullet is 36 caliber which is exceedingly rare in the area. In fact Jim says the only man with that caliber is a small man known as Holy Joe Feeney who is an outlaw. Sonny Boston, a friend of Locust, arrives in town. Jim talks to him as he and Locust know Feeney. Jim is fairly sure that Locust and Boston had nothing to do with the shooting. However, when another body turns up, Jim starts to find more evidence.
Episode 26
Black Trail
Mon, Mar 14, 196030 mins
Wells Fargo is shipping $100,000 from Sacramento to Hammond City for a bank with only five people knowing about the shipment. During the robbery one of the three robbers shoots the other two after the stage leaves but one man, Burch, is only wounded. Jim Hardie is called in help investigate the robbery. He finds that Mrs. Andrew Davis, the wife of a bank employee who knew about the shipment, has come in with a letter from her husband which strongly indicates he was behind the robbery. The bank president Cyrus Wilson tells them that Davis was known to have an affair with a local seamstress, Elaine Griffin, who was an actress with very dark hair that was left stranded in the town. Jim decides to start his investigation with her. He enters her business to find a blonde partially undressed who thought he was a client. She tells him that Elaine has sold her business and left. She does give Jim an address where she is to ship the rest of Elaine's belongings. He soon learns he has been taken in by a good actress. He follows her but finds there is someone else following as well.
Episode 27
The Great Bullion Robbery
Mon, Mar 21, 196030 mins
Jim Hardy is sent by Wells Fargo to investigate the theft of $20,000 in gold bullion at Weber Falls. In addition, the agent Ben King was killed during the robbery leaving his daughter Anne. When Jim arrives he meets with Marshal Emmett Clegg who describes the robbery. Anne found Ben shortly after he was killed but there is no sign of how the over 100 pounds of gold was removed. He assumes there was probably more than one person involved to carry that much weight but he doesn't think it has left the town as no one has left with a wagon or horse. Jim asks about strangers in town to which Clegg responds there were two men who worked for a rancher but quit. The other person of interest is Johnny Hogan who is an ex-convict and engaged to Anne King. While talking to Johnny, the two strangers arrive in town with a known outlaw.
Episode 28
The Outlaw's Wife
Mon, Mar 28, 196030 mins
Three men holdup the Dilman Wells Fargo office stealing $21,000. The local law interrupts their getaway stopping two of the outlaws but the third gets away with the money while slightly wounding the lawman. The lawman recognized the leader who got away as Pete Jennings but Jim Hardie was unable to find him until he received a clue that he might be George Grant at White Springs. With the local Marshal, Jim goes to the Grant home where they find Pete Jennings who is now married to a very pretty woman named Elsie. Pete refuses to turnover the stolen money so he is sent to prison for a lengthy term. The case is dead until Pete is released until Jim receives a letter from Pete. Thinking Pete might have changed his mind he goes to visit Pete but is shown a letter that someone is threatening to kidnap Elsie and kill her unless Pete turns over the money. Jim agrees to investigate. If Jim keeps Elsie from harm, Pete will release the money. When Jim contacts Elsie, she is living with her sister and working in a saloon as a singer and very unhappy.
Episode 29
The Town
Mon, Apr 4, 196030 mins
Jim Hardie is on a train to Wolf Creek playing cards with three men and some onlookers to pass the time. When a man named Burkett wins a big hand, an onlooker, Jim Crook, accuses him of cheating with cards up his sleeves. Burkett pulls a gun but the conductor quickly quiets the riff saying he wants no trouble. The game breaks up with Crook and Hardie apologizing to a girl sitting nearby about the incident. She is Lucy Potter who is going to Wolf Creek because her father deeded the entire town to her when he died. Her father left her when she was a baby. She is considering selling the town while Jim Hardie is being sent by Wells Fargo to build an office there. Upon arriving at the hotel in Wolf Creek Jim learns the one buyer for the town is Clem Fallon who manages the town and is known as a crook by Jim. When Lucy becomes the target of murder attempts, Jim helps solve the mystery of what is happening.
Episode 30
The Trading Post
Mon, Apr 11, 196030 mins
Dan Forster was once an employee of Wells Fargo but he left the company and hit it big. When he died, he had asked Wells Fargo to act as executor of his estate. The job fell to Jim Hardie who had known Dan Forster. His job is to find Dan's brother, John, who is set to inherit $100,000. His one clue is a letter received seven years ago from him at an Osage Trading post. While riding there a man takes a shot at Hardie who is able to restrain the man, named Hobson. Hobson is a bounty hunter looking for John Forster who has a $1,000 bounty on his head - Dead or Alive. He thought Jim was Forster. They decide to ride to the Osage Trading Post together in pursuit of Forster. It is an isolated business where few whites are seen. The owner, Frisbee, says he has no recollection of Forster and the Osage are uncommonly tight lipped. There is one white man now called Thundercloud whom Hobson suspects is Forster. Thundercloud is married to an Osage woman, Running Deer. Frisbee's employee, a beautiful young Osage woman named White Bird, complicates things.
Episode 31
Dead Man's Street
Mon, Apr 18, 196030 mins
F. X. Murphy, an older man, is the new Marshal of Paradise, California. He has just finished hanging his shingle out when a fight erupts from the saloon. Joby Ferguson is fighting with an Indian who is getting the better of the fight. When Joby pulls his pistol, Marshal Murphy shoots the gun out of his hand and arrests him for attempted murder. Healey, the saloon owner, begs him to let Joby go but Murphy is unyielding. The Ferguson brothers own not only the biggest spread in the area but the town of Paradise. George Guiness, the local Wells Fargo agent, asks to be a deputy to back up the new Marshal. As he awaits the arrival of the brothers in the saloon, Jim Hardie stops in as he is passing through the town. Alec Ferguson arrives and tries to intimidate George. Hardie steps in to back George up. His fight with Alec ends when other Ferguson brothers (Daniel and Amos) arrive and Hardie finds himself with George Guiness in the local jail tended to by Murphy. Paradise is no longer Paradise, suddenly.
Episode 32
Threat of Death
Mon, Apr 25, 196030 mins
After a holdup at Dobie where the Sheriff and four citizens were killed, Jim Hardie is on the trail of the gang and money alone. He finds Johnny Crail along with a wounded member of the gang, Daggett, who is about to die from his wound. Jim is forced to kill Daggett while wounding Johnny. He also recovers the stolen money. Jim takes Johny back to Dobie but finds the citizens are in no mood to help him as they are afraid Holly Crail will return to free his brother. Jim locks Johnny up in the jail telling the crowd he will be gone when the stage arrives in three hours. They begrudgingly go along with this but when the telegraph is destroyed some decide Jim and his prisoner need to leave immediately.
Episode 33
Dealer's Choice
Mon, May 2, 196030 mins
In San Francisco Jim Hardie who has recovered from an illness is called to Mr. Porter's office for his next assignment. A jewelry business has been requested by the Quintus Randolph family who made its fortune in lumber to replace a diamond pendant for a necklace that is a family heirloom. The daughter is getting married and this is to be a surprise for her wedding. When he arrives in Sacramento he is to check into a specific hotel and wait to be contacted. He is to be paid $80,000 upon delivery. Before leaving he decides to have a meal and is surprised when a beautiful woman claims she is his wife in order to be seated with him. When he catches her spiking his drink with Shanghai drops, he switches the drinks. When she awakes, she has a story for him but all Jim knows is that someone is after the diamond.
Episode 34
Pearl Hart
Mon, May 9, 196030 mins
Jim Hardie was looking forward to some time off at the end of a Wells Fargo stage route in Arizona. He was riding with three other passengers one of whom was a beautiful widow. When two men held up the stage, the widow pulled a gun on Jim telling him to unbuckle his gun belt. Besides stealing the strongbox with $5,000, they stripped the three male passengers of their money including $55 from Jim Hardie. The driver knew who she was due to her shooting prowess which she had proven during the holdup. Rumor had it that she hung out around Deming, New Mexico so Jim headed there. Sadly, Sheriff Roseboro could not help Jim as he said she did not come around town. Hearing the stories about her shooting, Jim decides to use a shooting contest to draw her out.
Episode 35
Vasquez
Mon, May 16, 196030 mins
With the gold rush came a rush of outlaws as well. Jim Hardie was sent by Wells Fargo to Monterey to catch one of the outlaws named Vasquez who has been very successful. Sheriff Morris has captured a member of the gang named Moreno but he refuses to talk. Sheriff Morris asks Jim if he has any ideas which of course he does. He asks the Sheriff to post some wanted posters for Rattlesnake Jim with his own picture on the poster. They create a sham stage coach holdup where the Sheriff nabs Jim and locks him up next to Moreno. He tells Moreno he is going to escape which he does taking Moreno with him who leads him to Vasquez. However, due to the protection Vasquez has, Jim can't arrest them without being killed himself.
Episode 36
Kid Brother
Mon, May 23, 196030 mins
Le Main is an outlaw leader who owns a saloon in New Orleans but he and his gang have taken over $100,000 from Wells Fargo in Texas. As the law officials in each state can't cross state lines, the law is no help. Le Main is known as a very mean and ruthless outlaw who leaves no witnesses. Since his brother Ben and sister-in-law Laura live in Louisiana, Jim decides it is a good time to visit them as he hasn't seen them in four years. At Ben's farm Jim spends the night but notices that Ben is restless with the farm life and is constantly peppering Jim with questions about his. Jim decides to ask Ben to join him on the assignment to which Ben readily agrees although Laura is not happy. Jim is told by the local police they cannot help him although the Inspector tells him on the side how to find Le Main. Thus begins a surprising experience for Ben.
Episode 37
Man for the Job
Mon, May 30, 196030 mins
A silver strike has resulted in a new boom town of Goldfield where Wells Fargo must setup a new office. Jim Hardie is sent in to help the local agent Les Goslyn get things started. Les has hired a new shotgun, Ed Garrett, but unknown to him a pair of outlaws have killed him with outlaw Parker taking his place. He arrives for work while Jim is in the office. The fake Garrett says he has driven teams but Jim notices that his hands appear to have never touched a set of reins so he lets the man go. Earlier Phil Couglin had asked for the job but Les refused to hire him as it was reported he was involved in a robbery at Tonodah but it was never proven. Needing a shotgun Jim decides to hire Phil over the objections of Les. On their first run together the outlaws strike but Phil holds them off. But later they contact Phil to force him to help them.
