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Wagon Train Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
38 Episodes 1960 - 1961
Episode 1
Wagons Ho!
Wed, Sep 28, 196060 mins
Naive young Irishman Samuel T. Evans packs the family printing press and heads west. After the greenhorn lightens his wallet at the St. Louis merchants, he joins the wagon train where he finds love and a wife in a girl named Melanie. The young couple share the adventure of life on the trial. But Sam seems to experience more than his share of the adventure. For one, Sam's horses don't take kindly to the clumsy greenhorn. And the Indians don't go easy on him, either. Even after being warned of the thieving Indians, the unfortunate greenhorn loses a valuable horse. But that's only the start of what the Indians do to Samuel T. Evans. Everything culminates when the Indians mistake Sam as the leader of the wagon train and kidnap him for ransom. But the fiery Irishman proves to be a handful even for the Indians, who gladly trade the man of the "Irish tribe" back to the wagon train. Not everything goes wrong for Sam, however. Melanie has good news for him - he's going to be a father - if only she can get through to her distracted husband.
Episode 2
The Horace Best Story
Wed, Oct 5, 196060 mins
Major Adams is back in St. Louis preparing to take a new group of travelers west and arguing with Flint, Bill, and Charlie, who are threatening to quit if they don't get raises. Along comes Horace Best, the Major's cousin, sort of, who wants to become a wagon master himself. He tells Adams he has $184.65 to begin his business which is not enough for passage to the west for himself. After tailing Adams as he sees each vendor about wagons, supplies, and horses, cousin Horace puts the lessons he learned in Tennessee on trading to make his own deals with the vendors preventing the Major from building his own wagon train. With plenty of ideas of his own to improve the trip across the west, he soon has signed up almost 100 wagons and Charlie, Bill, and Flint to boot. Now, can he get his wagon train to California?
Episode 3
The Albert Farnsworth Story
Wed, Oct 12, 196060 mins
When little Peggy O'Toole splatters mud on Albert Farnsworth's prized leather boots, she ignites a feud between the proud British colonel and Peggy's grandfather, the hot-headed Irishman Mike O'Toole. Jeremy Oakes, the colonel's orderly, tries to diffuse the situation, but with the colonel's proud, arrogant personality it's not long before Farnsworth has insulted others and tried the patience of Major Adams. The major orders Farnsworth to keep to himself and tasks Tim O'Toole with keeping Peggy and his father away from the colonel. But the wagon train's close quarters lead to continued confrontations involving more and more people, which threaten to spill out of control. In the meantime Cheyenne Indians approach the wagon train. The Cheyenne demand supplies in exchange for safe passage. Major Adams decides to accept the offer. Before he can close the deal Colonel Farnsworth interrupts the meeting. The colonel's rude remarks insult the Cheyenne, who declare they will take the supplies by force. In the ensuing raid Peggy O'Toole is taken hostage by the Cheyenne. Colonel Farnsworth insists on going after her despite the very real possibility the Cheyenne will kill him.
Episode 4
The Allison Justis Story
Wed, Oct 19, 196060 mins
Flint shoots and kills a man for horse stealing, then finds out he was the husband of a childhood friend. When he takes the body to town, he learns the man was also the mayor and buying horses for his livery stable. Reluctant to admit killing him, Flint tells the sheriff and the wife Allison he just found the body. The sheriff determined to find the truth soon learns it by questioning members of the wagon train. He tells the victim's brother Bert who tells Allison. The Sheriff has a talk with Flint telling him he believes there is more to the story and that Bert was not of the same caliber as his older brother. As Flint leaves town he watches the deputy run a horse which sparks a thought. He returns to the train to ask if anyone knows who shouted horse thief. Flint with agreement from the others believes Justis was running the horse thinking he was buying it. Flint returns telling Bert he plans to stay and marry Allison. This causes Bert to attack Flint who is able to wrestle control of Bert forcing a confession. However, the Sheriff has to intervene to prevent Bert's partner from killing Flint. Lou's honor is restored but will Allison and Billy ever be able to forgive Flint?
Episode 5
The Jose Morales Story
Wed, Oct 26, 196060 mins
Hawkes is guiding three wagons through Mescalero Apache territory. One wagon has a family of Quakers hoping to be missionaries while another is gruff trader Louis Roque with a wagon of trade goods. While scouting ahead, Hawks is confronted by a group of Mexicans lead by Jose Morales who takes Hawks prisoner with plans to take the three wagons. At the camp Raleigh is killed. Morales recognizes Roque as the man who stabbed him after escaping the Alamo. On the road they find two of Morales' men killed by the Mescalero. They run to a burned out cabin for protection while the Mescalero attack. Soon Morales is the only man left of his group but wounded. Hawks and Roque join the fighting while Joseph Oliver refuses to fight believing he can make peace with the Indians. During a lull he goes outside to make contact with the Mescalero but is killed with a lance. That night they decide Hawks can lead the three remaining members of his party to safety while Morales stays behind as Roque decides to stay with Morales as a sign of unity and respect for each other as soldiers. He raises the Texas Lone Star flag on his sword right before the Mescalero make their final attack. Hawks gets the others to safety but goes back to bury and pay respects to the two men who saved the rest.
Episode 6
Princess of a Lost Tribe
Wed, Nov 2, 196060 mins
Flint is asked to guide Mike Kelly, John Miller, and Dutch Carl Anders to Haunted Mountain where Mike's father Jerald disappeared. John Miller's brother was found dead at the base of the mountain with an Aztec knife in his hand. Flint is surprised by Lia who says she is a Princess. If her father okays it, she will return to lead the group to him. She returns waking Flint telling him she will lead them to her village in the mountain. She leads them on horseback up the mountain and through a tunnel to a walled city containing the descendants of the Aztecs and Montezuma who escaped Cortez. The village is ruled by Montezuma IX living frozen in time. Flint falls in love with Lia who talks to Flint about it being her eighteenth year. Montezuma delays answering Mike Kelly's question about his father but eventually Jerald Kelly tells Flint he wishes to stay there and his son is not to know he is alive. Flint prepares to leave asking Lia to go with him to be his bride only to find she is promised to another - their gods as a blood sacrifice. Although Montezuma decides Flint's religion might be good for his people, the people are not convinced. Lia must stay to allow Flint's group to escape.
Episode 7
The Cathy Eckhart Story
Wed, Nov 9, 196060 mins
Ben Harness kills Cathy Eckhart's father and admits it. A trial finds Ben guilty and hanged. As they approach a pass they meet a Army patrol who warns Adams about threatening Kiowa Indians and that no trains make it through the pass. They suspect a renegade alerting the Kiowa is traveling with the trains. Adams hired Jefferson Miller to scout the pass. Adams doesn't trust Miller so he has Hawks tail him. Hawks catches Miller at a fire pit and brings him back to the train. They find Cathy Eckhart hanged and scalped on the return. Adams brings Miller, Whitey, the Preacher, and Sarah Harness, Ben's widow, to see Cathy's body. He has each person tell their story to determine who the murderer and renegade is or the train will turn around. Each person tells their story allowing new details about the first murder to surface. Cathy's father caught her and Ben as she kissed Ben. Cathy asked the preacher to have Ben stay quiet about it which he did but Sarah wanted Ben to confess the truth. It appears Miller is the likely culprit until he shows Adams he is Army Intelligience. The Preacher states he saw Sarah bring Cathy there at gunpoint and hang her. Sarah admits to all but the hanging. Adams and Miller sound like they found the renegade but did they? Maybe not.
Episode 8
The Bleymier Story
Wed, Nov 16, 196060 mins
Flint, Hawks and Wooster are leading a small group of wagons split off the main train to the Dakotas. A massive rain storm floods a river crossing. The options are to turn around or cross Sioux burial grounds hoping to make it through before the rain ends and the Sioux are out. Samuel Bleymier is a believer in signs and omens. He keeps his daughter Belle on a short leash. He says the signs indicate they should turn back. Flint takes a vote with Justin Claiborne casting the deciding vote to cross the Sioux grounds. Bleymier's wagon breaks a wheel after being stuck in a mud hole. He and Hawks with another man stay to fix the wheel while the rest go on. Belle rides with Wooster and a relationship has developed between her and Justin with plans to marry. When the rain clears, Justin decides to go on horseback to find her father's wagon. The wagon is destroyed by the Sioux but Hawks and Bleymier are alive. Hawks uses the horse to warn the others while Justin and Bleymier go on foot. Hawks warns the others but Belle takes Justin's wagon to look for him. She finds them but Bleymier shoots Belle hoping to kill Justin. He steals the wagon while Justin carries Belle back as a tornado hits. Bleymier's reading of the signs fail him in the tornado.
Episode 9
The Colter Craven Story
Wed, Nov 23, 196053 mins
The wagon train passes through a drought stricken area on the way to Fort Mescalero where they plan to restock the water supply. They spot the drunk Dr. Colter Craven and his wife stranded with a broken axle and wheel. The doctor was asked to leave Fort Mescalero but the couple is forced to go there with the wagon train. Adams soon discovers the doctor is an alcoholic but still has some medical skills. At Fort Mescalero the owner Park Cleatus wants to gouge the train for water asking $25 per barrel. Adams decides to only water the stock continuing on to the river. Cleatus is hoping the train will abandon property on the way which he can collect. Hawks finds a steep but passable shortcut to the river saving the train. Creel Weatherby has a pregnant wife about to give birth but she needs a C-section to save her and the baby. Dr. Craven says he is unable to operate due to mental stress he suffered in the Civil War at Shiloh. Adams tells him a story about a friend who had a drinking problem but overcame it - Ulysses Simpson Grant. After listening to Adams and drinking a pot of coffee, Dr. Craven is ready to operate.
Episode 10
The Jane Hawkins Story
Wed, Nov 30, 196060 mins
Flint heads to Maddoxville to buy beef for the wagon train. On the way he finds a woman shot laying on the ground but alive. He takes her to Maddoxville to the doctor. Although the doctor's wife wants to turn her away, he treats her. Flint learns she killed Ben Maddox's son in her room behind the saloon. Maddox had sent his hired gun Jesse to catch Jane Hawkins to hang her but Jesse shot and left her. When told to bring back the body, Jesse can't find it so Maddox has him search the town. He learns she is alive and in the area but his men are forced to search for her. Flint who hid Jane decides Jane is not guilty so he enters town the next day saying he is her relative looking for her. With the information Jane provided and a critical detail provided by the doctor, Flint breaks into Maddox's house to confront him and his daughter with the truth. When the guilty party confirms his suspicions, Flint also confirms that Maddox is not interested in the truth but preserving his empire. Jesse and his men find Jane so Flint has to confront them alone as the townspeople are afraid of Maddox. However, a change of heart changes the future of the town.
Episode 11
The Candy O'Hara Story
Wed, Dec 7, 196060 mins
Gabe Henry and his son Luther are traveling west with Granny Henry as Gabe's wife passed away five years earlier. As she passes away, Granny has Gabe promise to find a wife before he reaches California. The train stops at Aurora for a couple of days to refit. Gabe and Luther go to town with the idea of finding Gabe a wife. The preferred women seem to be taken but Luther finds pretty Candy O'Hara. When Gabe meets her the first time, he has the "feeling" he told Luther he was looking for. Candy is in Aurora to earn $100 to bail out her gambler friend. When Luther tells Adams and the men about her, they become worried Gabe will marry her as they know her history. Adams tells Candy to leave Gabe alone but Gabe persists in pursuing Candy with a buggy ride and picnic. As she visits the wagon train to tell Adams she is trying to dissuade Gabe, she overhears Adams talk about her history. That night she tells Gabe who she is and about her job in the saloon and her friend in jail. Gabe, disappointed, has a talk with Adams who talks about a reformed man he knew but that women don't get the same chance. Gabe bails out her friend who has no interest in marrying Candy forcing him to propose. Candy realizing she doesn't love him, makes a life changing decision.
Episode 12
The River Crossing
Wed, Dec 14, 196060 mins
The wagon train starts crossing a wide river with quicksand late in the day before a major rain storm. Adams has Wooster hold half of the train up until the next day. Flint is to return and can guide them across the river. On the way to the train Flint sees smoke finding a Comanche village destroyed with the women and children killed. He buries the wife of Chief Dark Eagle after she tells him the Army attacked them. Flint goes to the Fort finding green Col. Buckner who thought the Comanche killed one of his officers. After he shows Flint the arrow, Flint tells him the arrow is Kiowa - not Comanche. Flint continues on to the wagon train where a Pawnee scout warns Flints the Army post has been destroyed. Panicked Jabez Moore tries to cross the flooded river losing his wagon and life. A wounded Col. Buckner and Lt. Bevins arrive looking for sanctuary. The Comanches surround the camp with massive numbers. Flint tells the people to act normally while he leaves to meet Dark Eagle. He offers his own life to Dark Eagle but Dark Eagle's men enter the camp taking the Colonel and Lt. Flint is freed and the train allowed to go on unharmed as Dark Eagle gets Comanche justice from the Colonel.
Episode 13
The Roger Bigelow Story
Wed, Dec 21, 196060 mins
Wes Varney injures his ankle when his horse throws him and runs away. After a few days he is found by Roger and Nancy Bigelow nearly dead. Roger is a man with a violent temper who has turned to the ministry to control it. Although Wes had threatened to kill Roger for his horse, Roger and Nancy take care of him nursing him back to health. Adams and his men recognize Wes as an outlaw although they are unsure if he is still wanted. Over time Roger tries to change Wes's attitude by showing complete faith in Wes including letting him know where Roger stores $1000 for a new church. Once Wes heals, he makes a pass at Nancy knowing she will tell Roger. When Roger confronts Wes, Wes knocks out Roger stealing the money and Roger's best horse Prince. Adams tracks Wes down bringing him and the money back to Roger. Roger lies saying he gave Wes the money and horse to keep Adams from locking up Wes hoping he can still change Wes. Wes once again takes off on foot and Nancy can't find the money. Roger catches Wes resulting in the old Roger surfacing with him beating up Wes. Adams and Nancy find them with Nancy announcing she found the money - Wes stole Roger's bible.
Episode 14
The Jeremy Dow Story
Wed, Dec 28, 196060 mins
Drifter Jeff Durant, notoriously known as a drunk, looks for work but is refused by townsfolk. Even a shady buffalo hunter, known to encroach upon tribal lands, doesn't want him. Jeff, spotting Bruce Millikan playing the mouth organ, joins him on his own mouth organ. Flint, needing a driver for the Millikan wagon after Clete suffers a broken leg, hires Jeff despite his drunken reputation. Jeff, hearing Bruce play a song from the school he taught at, learns that Bruce's real father, Jeremy Dow, died in a fire at the school as a hero. Jeff realizes Bruce is his son and his wife is on the train. Jeff leaves the train to join the buffalo hunters but returns to give his son his German mouth organ. While doing so he faces Hester, his wife, who recognizes him. He leaves but decides to return to be with his son. While teaching Bruce to hunt elk they see Jubal Ash and his hunters. Flint and Hawks find a dead horse belonging to the Arapaho. They find Jeff but Bruce is missing. An Arapaho brave tells the men the Arapaho want Jubal, who killed Iron Hand's son, for the boy. Unable to locate Jubal in the rain, Jeff decides to take Jubal's place to save his son, dying by fire for real this time.
Episode 15
The Earl Packer Story
Wed, Jan 4, 196160 mins
Ex-lawman Bill Strode rides into camp with a bullet hole in him to enlist the aid of Flint McCullough, whose life he saved years earlier in Abilene. Flint's questions get evasive answers, but he is willing to help Strode. After they leave camp, Earl Packer rides into camp looking for Strode and a meal. Hawks offers him a meal to help delay his departure. When a blizzard blows up in the mountains, Flint guides Strode to a deserted hunter's cabin. He tends to Strode who has an infection and is not lucid much of the time. It seems Strode now has a price of $5000 on his head and bounty hunter Earl Packer on his trail. After Packer catches up with them at the cabin, the three men ride out the blizzard together in the tiny cabin, Flint must keep them from killing each other and learns the whole story about Strode turning dirty for money. Packer, who wanted to kill Strode, awakens to the change in Strode due to the pressure of his life as Strode goes mad.
Episode 16
The Patience Miller Story
Wed, Jan 11, 196160 mins
Patience Miller's husband is killed by the Comanche on the wagon train on their way to teach at a school for the Arapaho. They along with daughter Prudence are Quakers. Flint drops Patience and Prudence at the school. Mr. Wise decides to stay when he learns the women are alone. Patience is confronted immediately by Chief Spotted Horse and braves but they back off when they see her red hair calling her a medicine woman. She uses their beliefs about her along with the desires of Chief North Star's son Evening Star to convince the Arapaho to send their children to school. Evening Star becomes a prized pupil but Patience becomes concerned when Evening Star talks about the Chiefs deciding they should attack the Comanche - their traditional enemy. Patience pleads with the Arapaho tribal council to cancel the attack which they do. However, shortly afterwards, Evening Star is killed by the Comanche. The Arapaho take the son of Comanche Chief Dark Eagle prisoner to be executed in return. Patience with the aid of Evening Star's mother release and return the son with the request that the two tribes meet in peace. In the end Chief North Star decides they can each learn from each other.
Episode 17
The Sam Elder Story
Wed, Jan 18, 196160 mins
Sam Elder and ten boys he is training in a military school style environment ask Hawks to allow them to join the train for the trip to California. He has a land grant there on which he hopes to open a military academy. The boys are orphans of soldiers that fought and died under Elder in the war. The Allen family lost a boy in the war causing the father Ben Allen to try and force his daughter Millie to avoid the boy Sgt. Perks. Ben continually creates arguments with Sam. When he learns Sam won the Congressional Medal of Honor for leading the charge in which Ben's son was killed, Ben tries to kill Sam.
Episode 18
Weight of Command
Wed, Jan 25, 196160 mins
The wagon train stops to go buffalo hunting and see a mountain man who lives nearby. He is found missing under strange circumstances. While hunting, Hawks and two men are attacked by Cheyenne and forced to take shelter in a burned out adobe. At the same time Major Adams makes another run to the mountain man's cabin and decides to check the Cheyenne camp as the Cheyenne signed a peace treaty last year. When he finds the Cheyenne camp burned, he decides to move the wagon train by night through a pass to safety. When Hawks returns with news of the two trapped men, Adams decides to abandon them for the safety of the train. Once through the pass he returns to see if the two men can be rescued and finds another wagon train massacred. The two men, one wounded, catch up with the men as they bury the bodies.
Episode 19
The Prairie Story
Wed, Feb 1, 196160 mins
The harsh sun, violent wind, pouring rain, wild Indians, the desolate prairie stretching on mile upon torturous mile, seemingly without end. Enough to challenge the strongest man. But what of the women? Plucked from their homes, their hearths, their friends, everything familiar and secure. How will they survive this unforgiving land? "The women make up the strength of this train." So says Flint McCullough. Which of the women will endure, and which will the prairie conquer? There's Mrs. Clara Reynolds from Philadelphia; Mrs. Sally Miller, young newlywed bride; Mrs. Charity Kirby, Gloucester woman who refused to leave her piano behind; and finally, Grandma Bates, seasoned veteran of the prairie crossing from her youth, on her way back to California.
Episode 20
Path of the Serpent
Wed, Feb 8, 196160 mins
Penelope Huntington is returning from England where she was raised by her mother to see her father Sgt. Bart Huntington who is posted at a remote outpost. Huntington is severely wounded during a Ute attack so he asks Cpl. Clay Taylor to find his best friend Ruddy Blaine. He wants Ruddy to bring his daughter to him as quickly as possible. Ruddy with his Shoshone friend The Serpent and Clay go for Penelope using The Serpent's secret trail. Penelope with Hawks return to the outpost with Ruddy. They start on horseback but when spotted by the Utes they go on foot and canoe to reach the output. It is abandoned with dead men staked out front with Sgt. Huntington left alone. On his deathbed, Huntington makes Ruddy and Penelope agree to marry. Unknown to Ruddy, Clay an orphan raised by Ruddy has fallen in love with Penelope. After Huntington dies and the dead buried, the group starts the trip back. Ruddy realizes something has changed between him and Clay but Clay denies it. The group is attacked by a band of Utes during which Clay after hesitating saves Ruddy. When Ruddy learns Clay plans to join the train, he talks to Clay finally realizing the issue. He releases Penelope from her father's request realizing she as well as Ruddy had issues with the promise.
Episode 21
The Odyssey of Flint McCullough
Wed, Feb 15, 196160 mins
Flint is on the way to Monument to rest when he stops for water and encounters a partially blind old man and his three grandchildren including a baby. The parents were killed by Mescalero Indians. While looking for supplies Flint finds an older sister in shock. An Indian pony arrives with a dead Indian giving them an additional horse. With no milk for the baby the grandfather prays to god and a young boy arrives asking for help to milk his goat. Later Flint finds a young Shawnee boy who is lost named Sweeney. The other kids reject him but after Flint berates them for their attitude the three boys become friends. The fort Flint heads for is abandoned and Flint is hit with measles from the kids. They kill a Mescalero brave, take his horse, and leave the fort. They run into a small army patrol and the leader berates Flint for his "rookie" mistakes not realizing what Flint was up against. Sweeney is reunited with a padre looking for him and the rest join the wagon train.
Episode 22
The Beth Pearson Story
Wed, Feb 22, 196160 mins
Ron and Beth Pearson join the wagon train to travel to Denver. Beth is a twin copy of Ranie Webster who was Major Adams one true love before the war but who refused to marry him. She died in Arizona after the Major found her. Major Adams courts Beth much to the dismay of her son Ron. Beth is concerned that Adams is still thinking of her as Ranie but the issue seems to fade away. When she is thrown from a wagon and paralyzed, Adams and Ron stay with her while the wagon train goes on led by Hawks. However, when the members of the train are told by Ron Adams is gone, they refuse to move until he rejoins them. Ron and Beth rejoin the train with her suspended by ropes. Adams is exhausted and when she starts to recover, he is so dazed he calls her Ranie unleashing the truth that he thinks of her as Ranie - not Beth.
Episode 23
The Jed Polke Story
Wed, Mar 1, 196160 mins
While scouting Flint finds a woman and son stranded with a broken wagon. Her husband has taken a horse for help. Flint takes them back to the wagon train where Dr. Allison Day helps her until he learns she is Mrs. Jed Polke. He and his three traveling companions were severely injured at Andersonville when Polke turned their escape attempt in to the authorities. They have sworn to kill Polke. Polke slowly recovers and Flint tells the men they can turn him in at the Army post they are soon to arrive at. However, they kidnap Polk and his son and take them into the desert to kill Polke. Flint finds them and is taken hostage. When they attempt to kill Polke, all but Walt Keene back out but a Kiowa raiding party kills Keene after he shoots Polke. As Polke dies he tells them he turned them in because the new Rebel guard was his brother and he didn't want him harmed.
Episode 24
The Nancy Palmer Story
Wed, Mar 8, 196160 mins
Nancy and Dan Palmer are a married couple from the south. While Dan is standoffish, Nancy is adored by the children on the train due to her story telling and love for them. Her stories include her own history of her brothers and fathers being lost in the war and her family life and estate destroyed. At a stop they volunteer to tend the children while the adults attend a dance in town. Dan sneaks off and robs the local bank of $20,000. A posse stops the train and searches it but Nancy hides the money within the wraps of a baby she is holding for a couple. When Hawks learns a child found a $100 bill in the Palmer wagon, there are mild suspicions. The Palmers decide to steal two horses and water and cross the desert while the train goes north to find water. Flint and another man track the Palmers finding her alive but Dan dead due to thirst. When they return, the adults scorn her but the children still see the same Nancy Palmer.
Episode 25
The Christopher Hale Story
Wed, Mar 15, 196160 mins
Flint meets Chris Hale alone on the prairie. Hale has just found his entire family massacred by Indians, and Flint asks him to join the wagon train. However, the company that owns the wagon train has hired a new wagonmaster, Jud Benedict. Benedict is a ruthless and brutal tyrant who puts time above all other considerations, and does not care how many people are left behind or even die in the process of heading to the final destination as soon as possible. He has also hired unscrupulous gunmen to enforce this goal by brutalizing slower people, or anyone who stands up to him. It is revealed that Hale has also been a wagonmaster, but has retired from the job and does not ever want such a responsibility again. Still, people on the train are looking to Hale to stand up to Benedict.
Episode 26
The Tiburcio Mendez Story
Wed, Mar 22, 196160 mins
Bill Hawks is leading four wagons through to California when they are stopped by Tiburcio Mendez and his band of renegades, who demand they turn back. Mendez and his group claim that California is their land and that it was stolen by the later settlers. A judge traveling with Hawks' group believes that Mendez has a legitimate grievance which could be addressed by the legislature in Sacramento, and against Hawks' warning goes in to Mendez' camp to talk with him. When Hawks follows, both he and the judge are taken prisoner.
Episode 27
The Nellie Jefferson Story
Wed, Apr 5, 196160 mins
When actress Nellie Jefferson joins the wagon train, her incessant demands for special treatment come to grate on Hale and Hawks, but Wooster is totally smitten with her. Meanwhile a fanatical man from her past is following her, talking about how she will meet her fate like the biblical Jezebel.
Episode 28
The Saul Bevins Story
Wed, Apr 12, 196160 mins
Saul Bevins, a blind doctor traveling with his son, his sister, and his dog, asks to join the wagon train. Many others on the train object that he will slow them down, but Hale agrees to let him ride at least until the next settlement, at which time the entire wagon train will vote on whether he should continue. On the way Bevins is forced to overcome many obstacles.
Episode 29
The Joe Muharich Story
Wed, Apr 19, 196160 mins
Polish immigrant Joe Muharich tries to befriend and hopefully straighten out Johnny Kamen, a brash young man who doesn't take well to anyone giving orders to him. Joe has lost his wife and son to thugs, and now he reacts violently to any attempt to harass or intimidate him. When Johnny accidentally shoots a woman while reacting against drunken thugs, Joe tries to defend him. But the thugs who harassed Johnny then harass Joe and start fire to his wagon, causing Joe to react by shooting the men and killing one of them.
Episode 30
The Duke Shannon Story
Wed, Apr 26, 196160 mins
With his clever tall tales, old prospector Henry Shannon talks Charlie Wooster into coming with him to search for a gold mine. When Hawks finds out about this, he rides out after the two men, along with Shannon's grandson Duke. Also following the old men are three men who hope to grab the gold for themselves.
Episode 31
The Will Santee Story
Wed, May 3, 196160 mins
The Santee family---Will, his mother, and his younger sister---join the wagon train under a false surname. They have been forced out of town after town because of a terrible thing a family member did. They confide in Hale, Hawks, and Charlie, who agree to keep their secret from the others on the train. But it soon comes out anyway, and things get complicated when Will falls for a young woman from the wagon train.
Episode 32
The Jim Bridger Story
Wed, May 10, 196160 mins
An Army general announces he is taking over the wagon train and requiring all members to act as soldiers in helping him rescue a trapped cavalry garrison of 120 men who are otherwise likely to be slaughtered by hostile Utes. Flint, temporarily in charge of the wagon train, has little choice but to agree to the general's demand, as much as he hates it and his passengers want him to fight back. Particularly upsetting to Flint is learning that the man who recommended this takeover was Jim Bridger, a legendary frontiersman and scout who mostly raised Flint and whom he idolized.
Episode 33
The Eleanor Culhane Story
Wed, May 17, 196160 mins
Flint goes to visit Eleanor Culhane, an old flame of his who had been married to a notorious gunman. He finds everyone in the town she lives in shunning her, and unwilling to discuss her, because they blame her for her husband's misdeeds and the shame he caused the town. When Flint finds her they begin to rekindle their romance. But then her husband, thought dead for the last five years, shows up in town. And Flint realizes there is another side to Eleanor that he was unaware of as well.
Episode 34
The Chalice
Wed, May 24, 196160 mins
An Italian immigrant couple needs help in transporting water for their grapevines to California. Unfortunately, the two men who offer the use of their wagon plan to steal the treasure they've heard the immigrants are carrying in return for their services.
Episode 35
The Janet Hale Story
Wed, May 31, 196160 mins
After losing one of her children in an accident, a woman becomes bitterly resentful of the wagon train and plans to turn back east, while her husband wishes to continue west. Hale, in an effort to persuade her to continue, tells her the story of his own trip west with his family and the ensuing tragedy.
Episode 36
Wagon to Fort Anderson
Wed, Jun 7, 196160 mins
Flint comes across four survivors of an Indian massacre, the two Ellison sisters and two Carder brothers. One of the sisters is deaf and mute. The brothers are the only survivors of their Army unit. The older brother, Joe, wants to desert and take advantage of the situation in order to break away and look for gold. The younger brother, George, is simple-minded and good-hearted but loyal to the older one who raised him. Flint tries to lead the four to safety, but Joe Carder tries to mislead the Ellison sisters into believing that Flint is leading them into danger.
Episode 37
The Ah Chong Story
Wed, Jun 14, 196160 mins
Dissatisfied with Charley Wooster, Hale and Hawks push for a new cook - a Chinese cook named Ah Chong.
Episode 38
The Don Alvarado Story
Wed, Jun 21, 196160 mins
A dying Spanish nobleman asks Flint to impersonate Don Alvarado to claim the inheritance for the rest of his family. This brings Flint into contact with the men who murdered the nobleman.
