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Wagon Train Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
37 Episodes 1962 - 1963
Episode 1
The Wagon Train Mutiny
Wed, Sep 19, 196260 mins
When gunfire is heard, Hale circles the wagons and sends Bill and Duke to determine the cause. They see Comancheros leaving the site of the wreckage of another small wagon train that was attacked. The only person they find alive is a young Comanchero who warns Hale that his group is planning to attack Hale's wagon train as well, and tells them how and when. He says the Comancheros are split into two groups with one group three days away. Though Hale is inclined to believe the young man, Hawks is skeptical, believing his story may be a trap. Many of the train's passengers believe this as well, and are angry when Hale recruits some of the men to come with him to wipe out the local Comancheros. When some of the men are killed, anger turns particularly against Hale and the young Comanchero, and a mutiny develops.
Episode 2
The Caroline Casteel Story
Wed, Sep 26, 196260 mins
Traveling trader Samuel Schofield breaking up a fight between Ute women notices that one woman is blonde and white. As she asks him for help, he notices a locket she is wearing. He asks her if she knows the name Caroline Casteel to which she nods yes. He strikes a deal to buy her from the Ute brave who owns her and takes her to the wagon train for protection. Duke meets him while scouting the Ute hunting party. Duke returns to the wagon train with the news that Caroline Casteel has been found. Chris sends Duke to Lincoln Center for her husband Frank who has offered a sizable reward for her return and is one of the wealthiest men in the region. The crew of the wagon train along with several women work to make Caroline welcome. However, many of the men and especially the women show their hostility toward Caroline for living with the Indians and their hatred of Indians. Frank Casteel and his son Jamie return with Duke to the wagon train. Frank thinking his wife was dead finds it hard to accept the changes in Caroline and especially the thought of what she lived through. A sickness hitting many of the children including Jamie shows the people's disdain of Caroline's belief in tribal cures which adds to the pain of a secret she has.
Episode 3
The Madame Sagittarius Story
Wed, Oct 3, 196260 mins
The entire wagon train crew waits outside Beaver City for a woman who calls herself Delphine who wants to join the wagon train. She shows up in a patent medicine wagon escorted by several men led by Mayor Hadden from Beaver City who tells the crew Delphine is a con woman who leaves with them or spends six months in the Beaver City jail. All but Charlie vote for taking her on to liven up the wagon train. Madame Sagittarius, a fortune teller and psychic, is suspected of being a con woman by the rest of the passengers on the wagon train who take to ignoring her. Particularly hostile is the father of a young woman who wants to keep his daughter from a young man of whom he disapproves. Charlie softening toward Delphine begins bringing her food and sewing clothes for her. When Charlie brings the young couple to Delphine, she takes them in and shelters the young couple. Wooster's takes a liking to the Madame, and soon the two develop a romance and plans to wed.
Episode 4
The Martin Gatsby Story
Wed, Oct 10, 196260 mins
With every new Chris Hale wagon train there is a probationary period everyone agrees to. If they or their gear do not meet muster, they can be dropped from the wagon train at Hanover. This time Caleb Lefton is having trouble. Bill has been helping him practice driving his team. He is slowing learning but the delays are straining the patience of businessman Martin Gatsby who wants to get west to open a new business. He is traveling with his wife and two hands: Jeb Colton, ex-wagon master and a Mexican cook named Arizona. Martin is complaining to Chris about the delays and Chris' own rules of the train which may force Chris to leave the Leftons behind. Chris reminds Martin that he too is violating the rules due to an overloaded wagon with an expensive dresser and wood stove along with unneeded camping accessories. Tragedy hits the Leftons while Gatsby and his wife must face their own issues as well the advice of Colton who hates Chris.
Episode 5
The John Augustus Story
Wed, Oct 17, 196260 mins
Bill along with Charlie and Duke are sent to town to pick up supplies. After they finish loading them, they head to the saloon for a quick drink where they find the crowd watching a poker game between John Augustus and a local Chinese merchant, Din Pau Yee. Yee runs out of funds but says he received a beautiful treasure that day which he would like to bet against Augustus for the pot which John accepts. Augustus wins the hand with three kings over Yee's three queens. Yee sends his assistant, Ceong Wai Kok, for the treasure. Augustus who had signed on with the Hale wagon train that day recognizes Charlie. For two bottles of whiskey Bill and Charlie agree to wait and take the treasure he won to the wagon train as he needs to leave. After consuming half of the bottles, the treasure, a beautiful Chinese girl, is left with them at the saloon. She is a surprise to Augustus as well when they return to the train. They don't tell Chris who is mad at them for being late and drunk. The people soon raise a ruckus about the pair making assumptions about them. A petition from the people leads to a disaster.
Episode 6
The Mavis Grant Story
Wed, Oct 24, 196260 mins
The wagon train is in an arid section of the west and has been finding the water holes dry or poisoned leaving it short of water. Chris has sent Duke ahead to scout for water but he has not returned and the notes he has left say no water. Chris knows he can stop at Mavis Grant's outpost where she has a deep well that always has water. However, he has heard that she sells the water at prices meant to strip her customers of everything she can get. Complicating the situation is a member of the wagon train, John Maitland, a merchant. Chris asks the members of the train to follow his lead in making it appear they are not hurting for water. However, Maitland doesn't agree and upon entering the outpost yells out that the well is their savior telling Grant that they are hurting. With Duke not back yet Chris is in a quandary. The people are willing to pay $5 a barrel but Mavis wants $25. Chris decides to go on half rations to save money but Mavis' scout returns saying there is no water ahead.
Episode 7
The Lisa Raincloud Story
Wed, Oct 31, 196260 mins
The Chief of an Indian tribe has died with gifts of furs piled by the burial for his use. Afterwards, three white men who watched the burial ceremony steal the sacred items and wander into Bill Hawks camp, Hawks is shot and taken prisoner by the Indians, who assume he was acting with them. The Indians are led by the beautiful Princess Lisa Raincloud, daughter of the Chief, who hates whites bitterly because her white mother was savagely murdered by a white gang after marrying her Indian father. She orders that Hawks be put to death after he is well enough. But before he recuperates fully, Lisa and Hawks find themselves falling in love with each other, much to the displeasure of her lead warrior, Grey Wolf.
Episode 8
The Shiloh Degnan Story
Wed, Nov 7, 196260 mins
Chris Hale finds a gravely wounded Army officer, Major Dan Marriott, near the wagon train, whom he knew very well and stood up at his wedding. The officer is delirious and severely wounded from an Indian battle, but before he dies he says things which if true could seriously tarnish the image of a national hero, Shiloh Degnan. Chris takes the body back to Fort Bannerman himself to find the truth of the matter. There he finds Sgt. Pat Galloway who has been court-martialed and refuses to tell the full story even though it could save his Army career. Chris informs Dan's wife Louise about his death but questions her about what happened to her and Dan. However, she refuses to tell Chris the truth. At Dan's funeral Chris reads a bible passage that reveals the truth.
Episode 9
The Levy-McGowan Story
Wed, Nov 14, 196260 mins
Patrick McGowan is not educated but an accomplished checker player beating everyone on the wagon train. Simon Levy, a Jew and educated man, with his daughter Rachel and young son David have come from the Old World to join the train and settle in California. Simon Levy and Patrick McGowan both consider themselves unbeatable at checkers, and when each loses to the other over several games their pride is hurt. Compounding things is that Patrick's son Sean and Simon's daughter Rachel are falling for each other despite their different faiths. Sean has been driving the Levy wagon since Simon cannot find a driver. Their young sons David and Tommy are constantly fighting although they are friends. A more dangerous situation develops when a rancher refuses to let the wagon train cross land on the way to the closest mountain pass unless each member of the train pays him a large amount of money. Levy and McGowan both prove themselves during the confrontation.
Episode 10
The John Bernard Story
Wed, Nov 21, 196260 mins
An elderly woman, Mary Budgeon, on the wagon train is kidnapped by Indians during the night. The next day Bill Hawks and a priest, Father John Bernard, ride out to talk to the Indians who arrive with Mary who is unharmed. She says they will only return her when the chief's seriously ill son is taken by the wagon train to the doctor in Wayne and cured. But some travelers led by Ben Gill returning to Wayne don't want to do anything for the young Indian regardless of whether it costs the woman her life. The Indians attacked Wayne a couple of years earlier resulting in many people killed in Wayne. The priest, who is going through doubts of whether he is worthy of his calling, tries to help the Indian. Duke returns with Dr. Porter by telling him they have a sick woman. At first he refuses to look at the Indian but relents. After he checks the boy, he tells Bill what is wrong with the boy. They cannot take the boy with them nor can he return to his tribe.
Episode 11
The Kurt Davos Story
Wed, Nov 28, 196260 mins
Kurt Devos is an immigrant blacksmith traveling alone except for his dog, Gretchen. After he finishes fixing a clip for another member of the train, Gretchen pops up out of Devos' wagon with cottage cheese on her face. It causes Florence Hastings to yell mad dog, grab Bill Hawks' pistol, start firing at Gretchen and then faint. She is very shy and deathly afraid of dogs so she cannot stand to be near Gretchen. While fetching water, a wild cow starts chasing her. Kurt and Gretchen who are nearby step in to rescue her. Kurt grabbing the cow by the horns holds on until Bill Hawks on a horse scares the cow away. Even after this Florence is too shy to thank Kurt although she wants to. Later, Florence accidentally knocks the brake off as they prepare the wagon to go down a very steep incline. The horses and wagon runaway with only her on the wagon. Kurt and Bill chase her on horseback. Kurt hits the ground severely hurting him while Bill stops the wagon. Kurt taken to a nearby town and doctor is found to be almost totally paralyzed. A collection is taken up for Kurt and Florence volunteers to stay behind to tend to Kurt and Gretchen over the objections of her brother and his wife.
Episode 12
The Eve Newhope Story
Wed, Dec 5, 196260 mins
Patrick O'Shaughnessey has come from the old country to visit his daughter who he has not seen for twelve years on his way to his brother's place in California where he plans to live. He has received periodic bank drafts from a bank in Fort Cameron from her so he, Charlie and Duke went there looking for her. The bank told Charlie and Patrick they did not know who she was. However, Duke later talked to the bank manager who had an idea who she was. She is really Eve Newhope who owns a saloon in the mining camp/town Bitter Springs and the only woman there. She is single and very popular as she is the person who keeps everyone under control. Bill and Charlie deliver a package she ordered and tell her about her father. She doesn't want to disappoint him so Bill and Charlie along with her patrons decide to repair a house for her and Dan Ryan is picked to pose as her husband. Eve is not sold on the idea but goes along. Although she doesn't like deceiving her father, things are working out until a miner returns after hitting a big strike and breaks into their dinner revealing the truth.
Episode 13
The Orly French Story
Wed, Dec 12, 196260 mins
As Marshal Jason Hartman unsaddles his horse he hears a gun cock behind him. Out loud he suggests it is Orly French, an outlaw he has been tracking. Orly tells him to drop the saddle but Hartman drops to the ground at the same time and shoots Orly in the stomach. Orly wakes up to find himself chained to a tree as Hartman returns with four turkey eggs for breakfast. They both hear Duke ride up to introduce himself and ask if they need help. Hartman and Duke have each heard of each other so Duke joins them for breakfast. Hartman decides he and Orly will join the wagon train allowing Orly to further heal. Hartman is taking him back to Dubuque for trial but he is trying to convince Orly to return the $50,000 he stole and hid to ease his sentence plus go straight. At the train Orly is seen by Dr. Wilson and his daughter Judy who are traveling with it. Orly softens as he gets to know the attractive Judy who he falls in love with. He is ready to return the money until Judy tells him she can't wait for him. Unknown to Orly her reason is not a rebuff of him. He decides to cooperate with Hartman anyway but Hartman has a past as well.
Episode 14
The Donna Fuller Story
Wed, Dec 19, 196260 mins
Four women led by Donna Fuller have started a Westward Temperance Movement. After destroying a saloon in a town they leave via a wagon. On a downward slope the horses run away and Donna cannot control them. Charlie and Alonzo Galezio, a winemaker on the wagon train, spot them while on a grape picking trip. After they stop the horses, Alonzo and Donna spot each other with a strong attraction between them. He decides to propose to her which she is nearly ready to accept when Alonzo says he does not drink distilled spirits. However, when she overhears Alonzo and Charlie talk about making wine (fermented not distilled) she decides to reject him but refuses to say why. The women decide to put on a temperance rally which gets out of control resulting in the destruction of Alonzo's barrels of wine.
Episode 15
The Sam Darland Story
Wed, Dec 26, 196260 mins
As the Hale wagon train makes progress it eventually moves into Indian territory owned by Red Cloud who is not friendly with whites unlike his father. Before they leave his territory they come across a single wagon that was attacked by the Indians recently. When they stop for the evening, Chris and Charlie decide to visit a nearby ghost town. As they approach it, they find smoke coming from it. They find a group of young boys running a blacksmith shop and several others helping to deepen a well. Sam Darland and several orphan boys are trying to setup residence in the town. They have no food other than beans and their well has run out of water. Chris tries to explain that the town was abandoned due to lack of water and the new Chief is not friendly toward whites. Sam and the boys return to the train to earn supplies. The members of the train try to convince them to join the train but with no success.Seeing Sam and the boy have food, Red Cloud decides to take it and orders them off his property.
Episode 16
The Abel Weatherly Story
Wed, Jan 2, 196360 mins
Bill Hawks and Charlie Wooster discover a broken down wagon and an injured man, a sea captain named Abel Weatherly. Hawks and Wooster help the captain, but when Hawks is nearly killed by the captain during a violent nightmare Weatherly decides it is time to tell the men his story. He tells how a young man named Michelangelo Fratelli joined his crew. A talented artist who believed all men were brothers. How the two became friends. How his ship wrecked and the two became stranded on a lonely island. And how, finally, tragically, he killed his friend when he believed Fratelli was trying to kill him, only to discover Fratelli may have been trying to save him. Now, driven by the desire to know the truth, Weatherly is following a clue to a nearby town, a clue which hints Fratelli may not have died on that lonely island.
Episode 17
The Davey Baxter Story
Wed, Jan 9, 196360 mins
Davey Baxter along with his sick mother and younger brother Wally are traveling to California to settle supposedly prime land to which they have a deed. The young Davey is engaged to a young seventeen year old Susan Forbes who is traveling with her parents. Davey, a dreamer, is constantly making plans for the land he wants to farm but he has yet to see. First, however, the wagon train must cross a high narrow pass that has been partially blocked by a landslide. They clear as much as they can but the path at one point is very narrow and rocky. The experienced Charlie Wooster takes his wagon through. Davey is second and when a rear wheel is trapped in a rut, he loses control of the horses causing the wagon to tumble off the side. Davey's mother is killed but Davey is alive but his right arm is crushed and trapped under the wagon. Using ropes Chris and Duke are lowered to them and rescue Davey and recover his mother's body. With the doctor away, Chris is left to work on the arm. Unable to stop the bleeding he decides to amputate it well aware of the impact. Davey survives but both he and Susan have trouble accepting the change with Chris feeling he is responsible for the whole incident.
Episode 18
The Johnny Masters Story
Wed, Jan 16, 196360 mins
The wagon train learns Buffalo Horn has returned with nearly a hundred braves and is on the warpath. On his way to Fort David to request a military escort for the wagon train, scout Duke Shannon discovers two dead cavalry troopers killed by Indians. As he investigates, he discovers a third man, a prisoner, Sergeant Johnny Masters. Sgt. Masters attempts to steal Shannon's horse. Shannon catches Masters, and with an Indian war party bearing down on them makes a run for Fort David. There Shannon discovers the fort is manned by a mere handful of cavalry misfits. The main body of the fort's contingent is out on patrol. With the fort commander laid up with a bullet wound, the most capable soldier in the fort is Sgt. Masters, who refuses to help with the defense and is locked up. As Shannon helps organize the defense of the fort against the coming attack by Buffalo Horn, he learns more about Sgt. Masters. A Cherokee Indian by birth, Sgt. Masters served in the Civil War where he was promoted to First Lieutenant by act of Congress, a commission he held for only a year. Caught between two worlds, the world of his birth and the world of the white man, Sgt. Masters was now serving a twenty year sentence for killing an army captain in a fight over the fort commander's daughter. Or so Shannon is told. As the fort's situation grows more desperate, circumstances force more of Sgt. Johnny Masters' secrets into the light.
Episode 19
The Naomi Kaylor Story
Wed, Jan 30, 196360 mins
The wagon train is losing horses at a rate of 5-8 a day due to grazing on locoweed which is ultimately fatal. Running short of horses Chris decides to send Bill Hawks on ahead to the John Kaylor horse ranch for fifty replacement horses. Chris and John are old friends and Kaylor had written to Chris saying he would sell Chris all the horses he needs for $10 a piece. Chris last saw the Kaylors nine years earlier when the daughter at the age of nine agreed to marry Chris. Bill arrives to find a funeral ceremony at the cemetery for the burial of John Kaylor. Bill returns to the ranch with Grace and her step-mother, Naomi. The foreman handling affairs for Naomi raises the price to $20 a head angering Bill. At dinner it becomes evident that Naomi is not mourning her husband's death and her interest is in money and travel. Naomi is quite beautiful as she was 30 years younger than her husband. In contrast the daughter Grace is much plainer but one of the ranch hands, Tom, is in love with her. Naomi is to inherit the ranch while Grace receives a $20,000 dowry - up until the family attorney, Charles Druten, arrives with news that changes the atmosphere at the ranch.
Episode 20
The Hollister John Garrison Story
Wed, Feb 6, 196360 mins
Virginian Hollister John Garrison with the wagon train by himself often contemplates the recent war and the impact it has had and the feelings it has left people with. An example is on the train in the form of Stevenson Drake and his wife Melody. Stevenson has become an alcoholic because of the need for alcohol to counter the pain in his head that started after a Union soldier hit him in the head at a POW camp. Hollister tries to help him with Melody who is thankful for the help. Chris seeing Hollister helping asks him to join the crew for dinner. Hollister agrees and brings some 18 year old moonshine to the dinner. After the dinner wagon train member Kempton joins them for a drink. Kempton from Tennessee lost a leg fighting for the north at Antietam but had two brothers killed fighting for the south. Everyone assumed Hollister fought for the south but he reveals he did not. When Hollister and Melody keep meeting via accident, Stevenson becomes jealous and after a while remembers who Hollister is and what he did as the two of them went to the same school. The revelation creates a dangerous climate on the train.
Episode 21
The Lily Legend Story
Wed, Feb 13, 196360 mins
When Charlie Wooster loses the supply wagon in a river accident, Bill sends him and Duke to a nearby town to pickup horseshoes for the wagon train. While on the road they hear a shot and find a man in a runaway buggy. He is Sheriff Lund taking a woman, Lily Legend, to the county seat to be hanged for murder. He is dying of a heart attack. With his last breaths he asks Charlie and Duke to take her to the county seat to complete his task. Duke and the woman recognize each other as they were childhood sweethearts and as they became older engaged. When her dad kept moving they lost track of each other. She had seen him once since then but she did not speak to him. A nasty sandstorm comes up forcing them to take shelter in an abandoned home for the night. While there two men show up carrying a dead body they say died of a bad heart condition. It is apparent to the three that the heart condition was a 45 caliber bullet.
Episode 22
Charlie Wooster--Outlaw
Wed, Feb 20, 196360 mins
During a shivaree on the wagon train Charlie Wooster heads back to the supply wagon for a bigger pot when two men and a boy cover him with a sack and kidnap him and the supply wagon. Charlie finds himself the prisoner of Bella McKavitch and her two idiot sons Esdras and Ciel. The third person is a young boy named Scotty. Bella sent them for Chris Hale as she has heard they are carrying a $5,000 payroll for the Army. Bill Hawks and Duke Shannon are aware of it but Chris kept it from Charlie. When the bag is removed from Charlie, Bella instantly recognizes that Charlie is not Chris even though she has seen neither one of them. Since Charlie knows nothing of the money, they decide they will have to kill him but Charlie tells them he is really an outlaw himself and can help them. Plus, Bella has a thing for new husbands so she has a personal reason for keeping him. Charlie. who has no idea where he is at, tries to plot a way out and finds his only help is Scotty who is an honest young boy even when both he and Charlie find the gold.
Episode 23
The Sarah Proctor Story
Wed, Feb 27, 196360 mins
When children's dolls are found mutilated in her possession, passengers believe that Sarah Proctor is either deranged or practicing witchcraft. Hale slowly arrives at the real story after Sarah confides to him and Charlie's snooping.
Episode 24
The Emmett Lawton Story
Wed, Mar 6, 196360 mins
Duke Shannon has been riding all day on a cold and windy day. Both he and his horse are ready for warmth, rest, and food so he decides to stop in the small isolated town of High Times which had been a mining town at one time but is now nearly deserted. At the stable he finds a crippled young man, Emmett Lawton, who doesn't want to take his horse but is finally persuaded to do so. He then heads for the saloon which also has rooms only to find it full but the bartender finally agrees to put a cot in a store room for him for two bits. In the saloon Jed Swairt tries to pick a fight with Duke only to be killed accidentally when he and Duke exchange blows and he hits his head on the stove. At the general store he is advised to leave town so he is quickly learning the town is less than friendly. The next day he finds his horse gone and eventually he is knocked out and locked up to be hanged later. He soon learns the town has been taken over by a n outlaw gang led by Monte West.
Episode 25
The Annie Duggan Story
Wed, Mar 13, 196360 mins
Chris Hale and Charlie Wooster take Dan Highet, his son Eddie, and sick daughter Jennie along with Annie Duggan to a nearby town for help from a doctor for Jennie who has typhoid fever. Hale recalls how Annie Duggan selflessly nursed the elderly Clinton couple she worked for until they died of typhoid fever on the wagon train. Afterward, it was necessary for her to be quarantined for two weeks, but she showed no signs of the disease, and she has agreed to marry Dan Highet, another passenger on the wagon train and the father of two children of his own. Now Dan's little girl Jennie has come down with the illness. The illness has been a contentious issue on the wagon train with some led by Martha Leeds think Annie should be isolated as she may be a carrier. Hale must relay to Annie the doctor's devastating news about why so many people she has been close to over the years have died.
Episode 26
The Michael McGoo Story
Wed, Mar 20, 196360 mins
The four Hooper brothers are orphaned when their parents are killed in a wagon accident. Hale hopes to find someone to take the boys in, but the only person on the wagon train who is willing to take all four brothers together is spinster Ada Meyers. Charlie, who, we learn, was also orphaned as a child and permanently separated from his own brothers and sisters, is determined that this not be the fate of the four boys whom he has come to care for, so he proposes to Ada himself. But when Ada tells him that she should not accept a proposal unless the man loves her just as much as the boys, he determines to find a husband for her. A crusty Irish seaman comes into the camp and intrigues the boys with his tales, but Charlie doesn't think he's the right man.
Episode 27
The Adam MacKenzie Story
Wed, Mar 27, 196360 mins
The Perez family lives in a village that combines the old pagan beliefs of the Indians with the modern Christian beliefs. Members of their village believe their teenage daughter Juana is a witch so the family packs up and leaves the village before harm can come to her. When their wagon breaks down with three broken wheels and they are lost, the father Esteban finds the Hale wagon train and flags them down for help and food. The wagon train is about two days from Medicine Lance where they will stop for supplies. Charlie Wooster is looking forward to seeing Ma Sikes who he says is a better cook than even him. The town has an excellent doctor, Adam MacKenzie, who has two young protégés studying under him. Due to a recent diphtheria outbreak they are checking all strangers before they enter town so the three of them ride out to the wagon train to check all the members. The younger assistant, Henry 'Wild Horse' Adams, being an Indian runs into some resistance. Meanwhile, Felipe Perez, was cut on the leg by a Lynx who walked into camp. He thinks it was his sister who transformed herself. The parents are afraid to let the doctors treat Felipe whose leg becomes infected as it might offend the gods.
Episode 28
The Tom Tuesday Story
Wed, Apr 3, 196360 mins
In western Wyoming Duke Shannon is scouting for the wagon train but has been gone for a long time worrying Chris Hale. Chris and Bill decide to check things out for themselves and they come upon the same problem Duke found. An earthquake or other event has replaced a mountain and a pass with a wild river that is impossible to cross. Bill spots Duke's gun and holster on the ground. Chris sends Bill back to take charge of the wagons while he looks for a pass and the unarmed Duke who must be in danger. He eventually does find Duke with a new grave. They return to the train where Chris describes what happened as the exhausted Duke sleeps. Duke was held up by an outlaw known as Tom Tuesday who has a high price on his head after helping rob a million dollars. Tom has been hit in the head by a shotgun blast causing him to pass out letting Duke regain control. However, later Tom uses a hidden derringer to regain control. He wants Duke to lead him to Idaho to the daughter he has never seen who is getting married soon. However, Duke wants to return to the train and Tom needs medical attention. The head wound soon allows Duke to escape when they find a horse to replace Tom's which he had shot. However, Duke takes pity on the wounded outlaw who can't see and slowly learns the history and real story of Tom Tuesday.
Episode 29
The Heather and Hamish Story
Wed, Apr 10, 196360 mins
The MacIntosh family on the wagon train consists of Samuel and his wife Sara and their pretty but strange daughter Heather. He is from the old country of Scotland and still believes in doing things as handed down to him. He has decided it is time for Heather to marry and she has not attracted any suitors. Her free time is spent talking to the animals - wild or tame. Samuel talks to Duke who is unwilling to give up his life as a scout to take a wife but when asked about suitors Duke mentions Hamish Browne of Irish descent. He is a born farmer who is traveling with his livestock including Lulu, his cow. His time is spent with the livestock with no time left for courting. He grew up in the backwoods with no mother and no knowledge of women. Samuel talks with Hamish about marrying Heather and convinces Hamish to sign a contract for the marriage with Samuel providing a dowry. The couple has never met and Duke is skeptical it will work. This appears to be a fact when Hamish leaves the wedding ceremony to attend to an ailing Lulu.
Episode 30
The Blane Wessels Story
Wed, Apr 17, 196360 mins
Duke was escorting five wagons who come under attack by Cheyenne Indians. Four of the wagons panic and are swarmed by the attackers. The fifth wagon with Duke is stopped when the wagon tongue breaks and is under siege. The other man Jim Collins is killed leaving Duke with three women. They are saved by a man named Blane Wessels who appears on the scene. One of the women, Minna whose husband was killed in the attack, is pregnant and soon to give birth. Unfortunately the Indians are certain to return, so the group finds temporary shelter in the relay station, Blue Water, after the kill the lone brave guarding it. Once inside, they find the wounded owner Ed Graham hiding in a hole under the floor along with guns and ammo. Though willing to risk death to fight for the others, Wessels still blames himself for the death of his own wife a few months before, and has become overly cynical and fatalistic, a fact which Duke finds troubling and even potentially dangerous for the group.
Episode 31
The Tom O'Neal Story
Wed, Apr 24, 196360 mins
Youngsters Tom O'Neal and Ellen Howard are in love on the wagon train and each has a desire to be married. Both have parents that have their own problems which has affected the kids. Ellen's mother died when she was 10 and her father, Dr. Howard, has replaced his wife with Ellen. Tom's parents did marry at a young age but the marriage has been mostly bickering between the two of them in an unhappy marriage. While riding with Chris, Tom asks for his help in asking the parents for permission to marry Ellen to which Chris agrees. However, when Tom asks Dr. Howard for his daughter's hand, Dr. Howard bursts out in laughter believing the idea is absurd. The embarrassed Tom runs away and Ellen goes to her wagon to cry. Both sets of parents feel the two kids are too young and Dr. Howard does apologize to Tom. Tom and Ellen decide to elope at a town a bit over a day's ride from the wagon train. Tom steals some money from his parents which upsets Ellen and the pair soon find themselves in the raw west which overwhelms them.
Episode 32
The Clarence Mullins Story
Wed, May 1, 196360 mins
Duke and Charlie visit an Army fort to see Duke's friend Clarence Mullins, a minister who was also a lieutenant at the fort, while also picking up supplies. They learn that Mullins was kicked out of the Army for refusing Major Gaston's order to massacre a band of Modocs and other orders over time, and that he has now gone into the hostile Modoc territory to preach the Gospel to them. Everyone assumes he has been killed by the Modoc. Duke with Charlie decides to ride into the Modoc territory to determine if Mullins is still alive. Surprisingly, they find that he has succeeded in his mission. However, Duke also feels that Mullins is overly optimistic about his ability to bring the Modocs and the Army officers together in peace as the Army builds a road through the Modoc territory.
Episode 33
The David Garner Story
Wed, May 8, 196360 mins
Chris Hale stops to buy horses from a reliable horse trader, Vern Orton, he has done business with in the past. After concluding their deal he returns home with the dealer for a home cooked meal but before they leave Vern asks Chris if he will be going by the county seat which he is. Vern has a cheap safe and is holding $8000 from a previous deal and he asks Chris to take the money to the bank at the county seat and deposit it. Chris agrees to do so. While at dinner a young man, David Garner, picks the lock to the stable and steals a box from the safe but he gets the wrong one. He is tailed by a young girl Susan who is in love with David but doesn't want him breaking the law. She tries to stop him when an older man named Judd shows up wanting his share of the money which David doesn't have. Judd is David's stepfather and taught him the lock picking trade. David knowing that Chris now has the money decides to sneak on the wagon trade with Susan tagging along. Chris agrees to let him work for passage as David and Susan fight over his future with Judd in the background.
Episode 34
Alias Bill Hawks
Wed, May 15, 196360 mins
After receiving a note asking for his help, Bill Hawks travels to a desert town to visit an old friend who has a ranch there, an Indian friend he fought with while in the Civil War. However, upon arriving at the small town he finds it deserted except for one young woman. She tells Bill everyone is at his friend's property working there. On his friend's property, he discovers that it is under the control of the local townspeople, who are drilling for water, and that his friend is nowhere to be seen. The townspeople are unwilling to give him any information, and in fact display outright hostility to him by dumping him into mud, leading Hawks to suspect that his friend may be in danger or even dead. Slowly, the girl opens up to Bill about what happened.
Episode 35
The Antone Rose Story
Wed, May 22, 196360 mins
Cattle rancher Henry Ludlow who is confined to a wheelchair and has minimal strength in his arms and hands lives with his daughter Judy. Judy has fallen in love with a neighbor, Antone Rose, a Basque sheepherder who lives with his young brother Nicko. Their mother is dead and their father was murdered in a range war. Although Judy and Antone want to marry, Henry Ludlow is dead set against it. He is so against it that he tells Judy one night to pack as they are leaving the next day. Henry has sold the ranch and the two of them will join the Hale wagon train to go west and away from Antone. However, that night she rides to Antone's wagon to tell him they are leaving. Anone then decides to leave his place to join the wagon train and marry Judy. After the Ludlows join the wagon train, Chris decides to have Duke help Judy which results in him appearing to be interloping which gets Antone's ire up as Henry continues to refuse to say why they shouldn't be married.
Episode 36
The Jim Whitlow Story
Wed, May 29, 196360 mins
Duke Shannon goes to visit his ranch, Shannon's Glen, since the wagon train is so close to it, to which he gave his childhood friend Jim Whitlow a half interest in it. Duke arrives to find a farmer tied up that has been bull-whipped but who won't talk about it and that although the original Shannon glen is rundown, the Shannon spread is now a ranching empire with Jim and his wife Margaret living in a very nice new house. It is due mostly to the use of tenant farmers and Jim's ruthless foreman Hubble who bullwhips them when they don't produce enough yield or try to leave their five year commitments. Duke is greatly upset by this and asks Jim to fire the foreman and offer the tenants ownership of their sections, but Jim seems unwilling to do either saying he needs Hubble because people don't respect him as he has no right hand. This brings up the history between Duke, Jim and Margaret and what really happened while Duke was gone for five years.
Episode 37
The Barnaby West Story
Wed, Jun 5, 196360 mins
The staff has been noticing a camp fire behind the wagon train for a while so Bill goes out to investigate. He is greeted by a large growling dog and then a person behind him with a rifle. The person turns out to be thirteen year Barnaby West Jr. who is traveling from Virginia on foot to Sacramento to find his dad. He and Bill have supper together so when Bill doesn't return Duke comes looking for him and is clubbed over the head by the over zealous boy trying to protect himself. The boy regales Bill and others with stories about his dad as one of the greatest frontiersmen of all time. The boy is a loner but he takes to Bill who is the first father figure he has known. Barnaby and the dog, Rusty, decide to stay by themselves but Rusty's lack of friendliness toward anyone other than Barnaby and Bill cause him to get into trouble. Bill and some boys pick up the fact Barnaby is reading a dime novel which is leading to the stories about his father. What will they find, when they reach Sacramento and the wagon train disbands?
