Episode guide
Wagon Train
284 episodes · 8 seasons · 1957–1965 · NBC/ABC
Season
Season 1
39 episodes
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S01E01 The Willy Moran Story Willy Moran, a drunk, is hired by a wagon as a driver. He is an army buddy of the Major, but is used as a fall guy by a member of the train who wants to rob it. When the battle starts, Willy uses his army skills to turn the battle.
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S01E02 The Jean LeBec Story When Seth comes to the aid of a man unjustly accused of murder, the dead man's father forbids the stores in St. Joseph from selling the train any supplies.
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S01E03 The John Cameron Story John Cameron heads west with his wife to start a new life. Her flirtatious ways may get the better of her when three trappers come into camp offering fresh buffalo and thinking she might be more available than she is.
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S01E04 The Ruth Owens Story Ruth Owens remarries and is moving west with her new husband. When her brother comes looking for her, he stirs up trouble for her about her past and himself because he just killed a man.
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S01E05 The Les Rand Story Just released from prison for murder, Les Rand goes back home to kill the man he held responsible; his father, the doctor. Meanwhile, Flint is there to fetch the doctor to help someone injured. Les vows that no one will stand in his way.
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S01E06 The Nels Stack Story A pacifist since the war, Nels Stack stands up to any man prejudiced against another. When his own beliefs are tested in the face of an impending Indian attack against the wagon train, he has to decide who he is going to defend.
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S01E07 The Emily Rossiter Story Emily Rossiter had a young daughter to care for. She met and married someone she felt she could trust. When she found out this was misplaced, getting the daughter away from him and into a better life becomes her main goal. Flint is sent in search of a gang of robbers who have stolen the wagon train money and deeds to land in California.
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S01E08 The John Darro Story John Darro is revealed as the man who abandoned a wagon train to the Indians several years ago. John has to prove that he's not the coward that he's reputed to be.
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S01E09 The Charles Avery Story Lieutenant Avery has a mission. Deliver a peace treaty and the chief's daughter. But he has a secret vendetta that may jeopardize everyone's hope for peace.
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S01E10 The Mary Halstead Story Mary Halstead is in search of a son she gave up a long time ago. With months to live, she comes west on the trail of someone who could be her son, but he may also turn out to be a notorious outlaw.
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S01E11 The Zeke Thomas Story The wagon train stops in a newly built town to get water they had always been able to get before for free. Wanting money now, and at a steep price, has the Major upset. Sending Flint also uncovers a wife of a passenger thought dead.
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S01E12 The Riley Gratton Story Riley Gratton has always drifted from here to there, a smooth tongue getting him whatever he needed. When he tries to do the same with some folks on the Major's wagon train, what comes next may be the least of his worries.
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S01E13 The Clara Beauchamp Story When a new officer and troops kill an Indian brave and the post commander's drunken bored wife insults the Chief, Flint is forced to act as a neutral agent between the Army and Indians and save the wagon train.
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S01E14 The Julie Gage Story A strong-willed woman, Julie Gage, runs into trouble when she's forced to "half marry" a man that she's tending to when he's stricken with fever.
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S01E15 The Cliff Grundy Story Mortally wounded in a buffalo stampede, Cliff Grundy's friend Flint stays when the wagon train leaves. Manson says he will help but his reasons for staying become clear as Cliff keeps saying he has a goldmine somewhere and he's recovering.
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S01E16 The Luke O'Malley Story A riverboat gambler who has committed murder pretends to be a parson traveling with his children.
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S01E17 The Jesse Cowan Story The Cowans and Beals have been feuding a long time. Bob and Jesse return from the war and find their family dead and the Beals have joined a wagon train. Revenging their family is just the start of what Major Adams must now deal with.
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S01E18 The Gabe Carswell Story An old Indian asks to join the wagon train so his son can learn the ways of the white man because he believes the Indian way of life is dying.
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S01E19 The Honorable Don Charlie Story Don Charlie is a gambler and womanizer and makes no excuses for it. When he meets a woman who wants to marry him there may be trouble because the Major promised her uncle that she would make it safely to San Francisco.
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S01E20 The Dora Gray Story Flint runs afoul of crooked soldiers selling guns to the Indians.
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S01E21 The Annie MacGregor Story The MacGregor clan decides to come to America and start a new life. The wagon trains going to California have had a hard time dealing with their different customs. Can Major Adams' be any different?
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S01E22 The Bill Tawnee Story An American Indian, his wife and baby join the wagon train when Major Adams discovers him badly beaten by bigoted white settlers.
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S01E23 The Mark Hanford Story A young Indian kidnaps his father's fiancé and forces her to work as revenge against the man who treated his mother badly and caused her suicide.
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S01E24 The Bernal Sierra Story Revolutionary Bernal Sierra joins the train finding the wife of his dead friend married to Casey Reardon who sold guns to the Mexican revolutionaries. Bernal is suspicious of Casey, his brothers, and Perdita over missing gold.
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S01E25 The Marie Dupree Story A romantic triangle between Marie Dupree, Wiley Howard, and Tonio Gigli play out when the wagon train meets another one led by Wiley.
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S01E26 A Man Called Horse A white man who was captured by Indians, but eventually earned their respect and married his captor's sister, faces prejudice when he returns home to Boston.
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S01E27 The Sarah Drummond Story During a storm, Flint takes shelter at a farmhouse. He soon discovers the husband is refusing his wife the care of a midwife and before it's too late for her he needs to find out why.
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S01E28 The Sally Potter Story Sally Potter hitches a ride on the wagon train but being pretty helps and hurts her. Someone she knew catches up to the train and wants to remind her of who she is and where she came from, possibly ruining what she wants for her future.
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S01E29 The Daniel Barrister Story Faith is tested when a man's wife is injured and he refuses medical aid. When Flint rides to the nearest town to get a doctor, he finds they have their own problems: a smallpox epidemic.
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S01E30 The Major Adams Story (1) During the Civil War, Charlie Wooster joins Bill Hawks under the command of Major Seth Adams. When Adams is seriously wounded saving Hawks's life, he must struggle to survive, while dreaming of the girl he left behind.
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S01E31 The Major Adams Story (2) Years after the Civil War, Major Adams gets a second chance with his lost love Ranie, who had married in his absence. But happiness doesn't always come easy, as a sinister rival and a dark secret attest.
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S01E32 The Charles Maury Story Disguised as Yank soldiers, a band of confederate marauders blend into the wagon train, planning on robbing everyone. They are at first stopped but a member of the train helps the man in charge when she discovers the truth to his identity.
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S01E33 The Dan Hogan Story In a growing town, Seth meets a friend from his distant past. He remembers how they met and the circumstances bringing them west. When his friend's home is threatened, not ever wearing a gun surprisingly helps him rather than the reverse.
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S01E34 The Ruttledge Munroe Story Ruttledge Munroe joins the wagon train on the trail. It's noticed right off his odd sense of humor, but when he saves the major's life, it is forgotten until he kills someone else and the real reason he joined up is revealed.
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S01E35 The Rex Montana Story On one final push to the west, a wild west showman runs into some old friends. Some that were part of a massacre that almost cost them their lives and one man his sanity.
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S01E36 The Cassie Tanner Story Trail hardened Cassie Tanner joins the train and sets her eye on Major Adams. But the train desperately needs horses, and she may be the only one who can make the dangerous journey to buy them.
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S01E37 The John Wilbot Story Tensions are running high in the train between northerners and southerners traveling west. As trouble escalates one passenger with a noticeable limp, John Wilbot, is accused of being John Wilkes Booth, who many believe is still alive.
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S01E38 The Monty Britton Story When the wagon train runs low on water, Adams is forced to rely on a suspected deserter to get help from a nearby fort.
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S01E39 The Sacramento Story At the end of a long journey, lives were lost. Some made it with their dreams intact. Flint tries to help two of the passengers with theirs and almost bites off too much. Politics are involved as well as unsolicited trips to the Far East.
Season
Season 2
38 episodes
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S02E01 Around the Horn Planning to sail to Boston, the Major, Hawks and Charlie are instead shanghaied to New Orleans where they meet a Captain who has different ideas on raising his child and running a ship.
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S02E02 The Juan Ortega Story Juan awakens to the sound of three men hanging his beloved father. Joining the wagon train, he comes across one of the three, tortured by Indians. He nurses him back to health but only under the guise of looking for the other two killers.
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S02E03 The Jennifer Churchill Story Jennifer Churchill, pampered all her life, runs away from a smothering lifestyle and pending marriage, and joins the wagon train. With bounty hunters on her heels, she finds Flint, a man who she wants but doesn't want her.
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S02E04 The Tobias Jones Story Major Adams allows two stowaways, Tobias Jones and his young friend Midge, to stay with the train. But Tobias is in trouble due to his drinking, and things get worse when he's accused of murder.
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S02E05 The Liam Fitzmorgan Story Liam Fitzmorgan joins the train, looking for an informer who betrayed the Irish cause. However, Liam soon falls in love with the daughter of the man who he suspects is the traitor.
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S02E06 The Doctor Willoughby Story Concerned about Bart Grover, one of the passengers on the wagon train, woman doctor Carol Ames Willoughby tries to help even though she's hampered further by everyone else who shuns her. Meantime an Indian chief needs doctoring and they don't believe in female medicine men.
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S02E07 The Bije Wilcox Story After advertising to look for his brother Charles and offering a $5,000 reward, a member of the wagon train gets a response from someone who walks through an Indian party that's pinning them all down. What he finds is not what he expected.
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S02E08 The Millie Davis Story Millie Davis reluctantly takes in an orphaned baby girl. Eight years later the girl's grandmother arrives to retrieve her. But Millie doesn't want to give up the child, so she claims that she and Flint are the parents.
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S02E09 The Sakae Ito Story A samurai warrior fails in his efforts to bring the ashes of his master back to Japan.
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S02E10 The Tent City Story When a member of the train is placed in chains after breaking Indian law by killing a buffalo, Major Adams quarrels with Flint who quits and takes a job at nearby Tent City. But White Eagle discovers the dead buffalo and demands justice.
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S02E11 The Beauty Jamison Story Flint helps out Beauty Jamison, the daughter of a dead rancher who has inherited his spread... and the local ranchers that are trying to drive her out.
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S02E12 The Mary Ellen Thomas Story A hostile orphan girl accompanies her friend: another girl dying of consumption.
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S02E13 The Dick Richardson Story When the wagon horses start to die of a disease, Adams is forced to send two men who are feuding to buy new horses with his emergency money. One of the men's horse returns without him making Adams wonder if he made a mistake.
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S02E14 The Kitty Angel Story Kitty Angel finds herself not welcome on the wagon train due to her past. When Flint returns to the train toting a sick Indian baby, she has everyone's prejudices to deal with as well as this life threatening illness.
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S02E15 The Flint McCullough Story Flint, in love with a Mormon girl he can't marry, joins the confederate army. When he finds out that he won't be joining any battles and what their real purpose is, it may be too late for him and the girl he loves.
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S02E16 The Hunter Malloy Story Hunter Malloy and partner get jobs as drivers on the wagon train to rob their boss. Striking gold instead while stopping to repair their wagons, the fever is high as some stop to strike it rich and uncover more than just a few nuggets.
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S02E17 The Ben Courtney Story The inhabitants of Bitter Springs are hostile to a Southern family who adopted a black child. The Sheriff is behind their intolerant attitude.
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S02E18 The Ella Lindstrom Story Ella Lindstrom loses her husband on the wagon train ride west from Boston. With her seven children she decides to stay the course against the wishes of Major Adams. It gets more complicated when she thinks she is expecting number eight.
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S02E19 The Last Man Scouting for a better pass, Flint finds a mountain man, hungry and half out of his mind. With no memory, his strange behavior may endanger the entire wagon train especially when everyone feels they know who he is.
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S02E20 The Old Man Charvanaugh Story Flint escorts a wagon, leaving the train, to their new home. When they meet an old man with a wagon load of uncured buffalo skins he's trying to sell, they invite him along as he appears friendly enough. But Flint feels he's too friendly.
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S02E21 The Annie Griffith Story Flint, seeking safe passage through the mountains, is shot and losing consciousness is dragged to a cabin. Nursed back to health, his savior finds the man who shot him was her husband and Flint had to kill him or be killed.
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S02E22 The Jasper Cato Story Jasper Cato joins the train, claiming to be looking for man who has an inheritance waiting for him back east.
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S02E23 The Vivian Carter Story Getting set to leave the wagon train, Vivian Carter finds out a friend she knows from the train hoped for more than that. Heading to a new life and her first marriage, she's given some options and even at her age has its surprises.
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S02E24 The Conchita Vasquez Story Suspecting a hurt girl he finds on the trail is part of a group of bandits, Flint cautiously helps her but soon learns she is all he suspects until her guardian is killed and Flint becomes her only protection.
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S02E25 The Sister Rita Story Leaving the safety of their village, a group of nuns set out to help those Indians in need at a mission. Now Flint must try to help them fight some Ute Indians who don't seem to know the nuns are just there to help them.
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S02E26 The Matthew Lowry Story Matthew Lowry, a one-armed Quaker, helps the train when they risk infection of cholera, and Adams faces a mutiny.
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S02E27 The Swift Cloud Story During an Indian attack on the wagon train, Major Seth Adams spares the life of Swift Cloud, crippled son of the Indian chief. Adams is shocked to learn that Swift Cloud's condition is a result of a vicious assault by a half-breed.
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S02E28 The Vincent Eaglewood Story A would-be college professor, Vincent Eaglewood, offers to teach the train's children to pay his way to San Francisco. Major Seth agrees, but Vincent's lack of common sense gets him into trouble.
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S02E29 The Clara Duncan Story Clara Duncan joins the train in a search for her artist fiancé. But finding him could lead to trouble, as one of his missing paintings depicting a heinous crime may implicate some of the locals.
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S02E30 The Duke Le May Story Escaped convict Duke Le May joins the wagon train under an assumed name. When a deputy shows up to arrest him and is killed, Flint is asked to escort him to the nearest fort for trial but he does all he can to prolong that journey.
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S02E31 The Kate Parker Story The wagon train pushes ahead when one of the passengers has an accident. With only a wagon between two couples, one person decides to leave with money including some gold coins. They have an accident and the storm's only getting worse.
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S02E32 The Steve Campden Story Flint must find a way to get the wagon train around a snow covered pass. On a scouting trek, he meets a father and son who are willing to help him but they want to hike up the mountain. The adventure ahead has surprises for them all.
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S02E33 Chuck Wooster, Wagonmaster When a big snow halts the train, several of the men disappear mysteriously with no trace of them to be found. After Flint, Major Adams, and Hawks go missing, it's up to Chuck Wooster to lead the train to safety.
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S02E34 The Jose Maria Moran Story The Shoshone string up a Pawnee warrior to die. The train finds the warrior and discovers that he's the long-lost son of Spanish aristocrats... and the Shoshone won't stop until he's dead.
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S02E35 The Andrew Hale Story The Major finds an old man in the desert and takes him to the wagon train. He doesn't remember his name but when he's recognized by one of the other passengers, he remembers not just his name but the faith he thought he lost as well.
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S02E36 The Rodney Lawrence Story After his parents are killed by white men, a boy is raised by a lone Indian. Years later when the wagon train stops nearby, the Indian tells the young man to join his people. But his previous experience with the train make him hesitate.
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S02E37 The Steele Family Story A widow and her four unmarried daughters on their way to California. She hopes to find husbands for her daughters.
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S02E38 The Jenny Tannen Story A young girl is injured while on the way to San Francisco to find her famous mother who abandoned her as a baby. The crew helps her with her pending blindness and find her mother who has her own problem unknown to her daughter.
Season
Season 3
37 episodes
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S03E01 The Stagecoach Story The men are returning to St. Louis by stagecoach except for Flint - until he becomes the driver to help a friend. They are forced to take a detour to Mexico by other passengers - one of whom denies knowing Flint who is in love with her.
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S03E02 The Greenhorn Story At the beginning of any wagon train trip, the challenges faced by everyone turns a greenhorn into a seasoned veteran, even if those may mean death of those they love or some other loss.
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S03E03 The C.L. Harding Story A reporter has joined the wagon train. When the Major finds out he is a she, he finds his hands full especially when her looks and curiosity jeopardize everyone's safety and their right to vote.
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S03E04 The Estaban Zamora Story Estaban Zamora is a Basque rancher coming to America to herd sheep... and discovers that someone has murdered his youngest son.
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S03E05 The Elizabeth McQueeny Story A woman heading west with a gaggle of girls claims that she is going to open a finishing school. The truth gets out... as does spotted fever.
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S03E06 The Martha Barham Story The Cheyenne and the Sioux band together to attack a fort, and an officer's wife Martha Barham is abducted. However, when Flint is sent to rescue her, he discovers that she suspects that he's a renegade working with the Indians.
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S03E07 The Cappy Darrin Story Cappy and his grandson Tuck try to leave the wagon train and head for San Francisco to fulfill Tuck's dream of seeing the ocean.
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S03E08 The Felizia Kingdom Story An old woman controls her 300,000 acres with an iron hand. But when Flint stands up to her, the woman decides that he should marry her granddaughter Angela... whether he wants to or not.
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S03E09 The Jess MacAbee Story While scouting for meat, Flint stumbles across an oasis like valley protected by Jess MacAbee, who forces his daughters to do the work while claiming that Indians lurk just outside the valley.
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S03E10 The Danny Benedict Story Seth takes on a young boy who is unwilling to join the wagon train but is eventually forced to go with them. When they arrive at the next fort, they discover that the boy's father, a colonel was forced to flog his own son.
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S03E11 The Vittorio Botticelli Story Duke Vittorio Botticelli and his butler Josef are sent to America and join the wagon train. The womanizing Vittorio falls in love with n American woman, but trouble arises when his betrothed from Europe arrives.
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S03E12 The St. Nicholas Story On Christmas Eve, the wagon train is attacked by Ute braves and one young boy is taken prisoner... or is he?
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S03E13 The Ruth Marshall Story While Flint is out looking for a missing girl, a white woman who dresses and acts like an Indian takes him in when he is wounded.
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S03E14 The Lita Foladaire Story The train comes across a dying woman, and Seth sets out to discover who killed her.
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S03E15 The Colonel Harris Story Flint gets caught in a war between two old friends: an Army Colonel and a Comanche leader.
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S03E16 The Maidie Brandt Story The train comes across a stranded widow and her son, but she refuses to travel with the train to the next town to buy horses.
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S03E17 The Larry Hanify Story Flint takes on Larry Hanify, the 17-year-old son of a dying friend. However, Larry is soon accused of robbery.
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S03E18 The Clayton Tucker Story A small train of three wagons hoping to meet the Adams train is on their own when their scout dies.
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S03E19 The Benjamin Burns Story When the train runs out of water and water holes are few and far between, Flint and the others rely on Benjamin Burns to find a legendary spring that Burns saw 30 years ago in the area.
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S03E20 The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story Ricky and Laurie Bell head from Baltimore out west, but when Laurie becomes pregnant, Ricky begins to resent her attention to the baby.
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S03E21 The Tom Tuckett Story Tom Tuckett is helped throughout his life by a mysterious benefactor, after he helps a convict escape. He joins the train and meets a young girl who he has loved from afar, although she has always thought him beneath her station.
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S03E22 The Tracy Sadler Story Tracy Sadler is trying to track down her son, David Forest. But her assistant Cadge has other plans.
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S03E23 The Alexander Portlass Story British archaeologist Alexander Portlass is looking for Montezuma's treasure. His men capture Flint and force him to lead them to the treasure.
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S03E24 The Christine Elliott Story Christine Elliot plans to fulfill her dead father's dream of starting a boys school, but someone plans to stop her.
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S03E25 The Joshua Gilliam Story The wagon train finds a man, Joshua Gilliam, whipped and dying along the side of the trail. When they rescue him, Joshua soon befriends Greta Halstadt and claims that he's a schoolteacher... but keeps a dark secret.
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S03E26 The Maggie Hamilton Story The Hamiltons hire Flint to bring their spoiled daughter Maggie back, and Flint not only has to deal with Maggie's temper tantrums but renegades looking for a hostage.
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S03E27 The Jonas Murdock Story Chief Red Hawk grants the train passage across his people's territory in return for them not killing any animals for supplies. But mountain man Jonas Murdock refuses to abide by the edict, putting everyone in danger.
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S03E28 The Amos Gibbon Story After an argument with Major Adams, an exhausted Flint leaves the wagon train. He cools off at a bar in the nearby town of Silver Creek, not telling Adams or anyone else where he was headed. Unknown to him, locals are shanghaiing strangers for slave labor in the mine. Amos Gibbon makes an escape, only to be captured and returned to the mine.
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S03E29 Trial for Murder (1) Seth is forced to hold a trial when a member of the wagon train is found murdered.
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S03E30 Trial for Murder (2) Iver's wife Leslie appears to provide testimony that may clear the defendant's name.
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S03E31 The Countess Baranof Story A countess is desperate to get to Alaska before the Russians sell it… and her bodyguard is equally determined to make sure she never reaches Alaska alive.
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S03E32 The Dick Jarvis Story A crippled Dick Jarvis befriends a runaway, Joey Henshaw, over his mother's objections.
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S03E33 Dr. Swift Cloud Swift Cloud returns to the wagon train having become a white man doctor, but neither the wagon train members nor Swift Cloud's original tribe will let him practice medicine.
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S03E34 The Luke Grant Story A singing troupe joins the train, and their leader recognizes a sunstruck survivor the train picked up as her former fiance.
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S03E35 The Charlene Brenton Story Charlie takes a baby--and the only survivor of a stagecoach stricken by bubonic plague--thinking that the townspeople mean to kill it
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S03E36 The Sam Livingston Story Missionairy Abigail Newkirk finds a replacement driver, Sam Livingston, who is traveling with his friend Cass Fleming.
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S03E37 The Shadrack Bennington Story A medicine man, Shadrack Bennington, abandons his partner and joins the train. Shadrack soon charms a woman and an orphan, but then abandons them when the train reaches San Francisco.
Season
Season 4
38 episodes
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S04E01 Wagons Ho! While preparing to return to St. Joseph, the men read the story "Wagon Ho" written and printed by Samuel T. Evans about his trip as a naive young Irishman headed west and his experiences and adventure on the trail.
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S04E02 The Horace Best Story Horace Best, Seth's "cousin", undermines the wagon train by making better deals to build his own train. Now all he has to do is get it to California.
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S04E03 The Albert Farnsworth Story An arrogant British colonel joins the train and starts a feud with an Irish family... and then endangers the train when he insults a Cherokee chief.
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S04E04 The Allison Justis Story Flint faces execution after killing a supposed horse thief who turns out to be the local town's mayor... and the husband of his childhood friend.
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S04E05 The Jose Morales Story Bill is forced to team up with Jose Morales and his band of Mescaleros when Apaches threaten to kill them all.
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S04E06 Princess of a Lost Tribe Flint takes three men to investigate Haunted Mountain, and finds a lost tribe of Aztecs.
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S04E07 The Cathy Eckhart Story After Cathy Eckhart is murdered, apparently by Indians, Seth has each of the witnesses testify... and their stories will determine if Ben Harness lives or dies since he's been convicted of the murder of Cathy's father.
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S04E08 The Bleymier Story Flint, Hawks and Wooster are leading a small group of wagons split off the main train to the Dakotas. When the rains won't stop the wagon train has to travel through a Sioux Indian burial ground.
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S04E09 The Colter Craven Story Dr. Craven feels he can't perform surgery any longer. When he joins the wagon train and his services are desperately needed, he realizes he may be wrong after Major Adams gives him a history lesson.
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S04E10 The Jane Hawkins Story Flint discovers a badly wounded waitress on the range and takes her to a doctor. He learns that the evil town's owner wants to hang her without trial because he suspects she murdered his son.
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S04E11 The Candy O'Hara Story Gabe Henry and his son have been sorely missing the female touch over five years now. Finding a wife during a stopover is his top priority but his choice is known to Major Adams and he does not approve.
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S04E12 The River Crossing Colonel Buckner mistakenly wipes out a Comanche Indian village of women and children, and now Comanche braves are looking for revenge.
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S04E13 The Roger Bigelow Story Roger Bigelow turns to the ministry with his father's help when he realizes what he might become without it. He gets the chance to help someone else on the wrong path but Major Adams is not sure the reverend is helping the right person.
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S04E14 The Jeremy Dow Story Flint hires drunk Jeff Durant to drive a wagon on the train. It turns out that Jeff is Jeremy Dow, who supposedly died a heroic death years ago and whose family is on the train.
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S04E15 The Earl Packer Story Wounded Bill Strode arrives in camp looking for Flint. Strode, who saved Flint's life in Abilene, asks Flint to help him get to Fort Kearny. Flint learns the itchy Strode is being hunted by bounty hunter Earl Packer and Strode has changed.
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S04E16 The Patience Miller Story Quaker schoolteacher Patience Miller heads to the Arapaho nation on the wagon train when her husband is killed by the Comanches. 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 meets the Chief and his willingness to fight another Indian nation puts her right in the middle of each tribe's pride and customs.
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S04E17 The Sam Elder Story Retired Captain Sam Elder and ten boys join the wagon train on their way to California. The boys are orphans of soldiers that fought and died under Elder in the war. he hopes to open a military academy. Hitching a ride was all he thought he was involving the boys with until he meets one man on the train with a secret resentment.
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S04E18 Weight of Command Bill and Major Adams plan on going hunting with a friend but when he is not home they suspect a renegade party of Cheyenne who have broken the peace treaty and the wagon train may be their next target.
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S04E19 The Prairie Story The story of the women of the wagon train and the unforgiving prairie through which they pass. Who will endure, and who will give up? Who will live, and who will die?
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S04E20 Path of the Serpent A dying soldier asks his old friend Ruddy Blaine to bring his daughter Penelope to him before he expires.
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S04E21 The Odyssey of Flint McCullough Looking forward to some time off, Flint heads towards the town of Monument but runs into an old man and some kids whose parents were just massacred by Mescalero Apaches. The children are running low on supplies especially milk for the baby.
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S04E22 The Beth Pearson Story The leaders of the wagon train are taken aback when they see a woman asking to join the wagon train who is the twin of Major Adams one and only love who died in his arms.
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S04E23 The Jed Polke Story Flint brings stranded woman Rheba Polke and her son to the train. When her husband Jed Polke returns with help, many recognize him from the Macon, Georgia Andersonville Prison (Confederate prisoner-of-war camp) where prisoners were planning an escape. Polke had turned their escape attempt in to the authorities. They have sworn to kill Polke.
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S04E24 The Nancy Palmer Story A married couple use the wife's innocent face and winning way with children to gain the trust of their companions on the wagon train so that they won't be suspected when the husband pulls off a bank robbery nearby.
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S04E25 The Christopher Hale Story Flint returns to the wagon train camp to announce that their company has appointed Jud Benedict as their new wagon master, and it isn't good news. Flint McCullough then offers the position to retired wagon master Chris Hale.
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S04E26 The Tiburcio Mendez Story Tiburcio Mendez and his group of Californios stop the wagon train because they want to keep settlers out. A judge traveling with the train believes a peaceful resolution is possible, but not everyone wants peace.
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S04E27 The Nellie Jefferson Story Charlie Wooster is smitten by actress Nellie Jefferson, when she joins the train. Not so with others, who tire of her incessant demands for special treatment. Meanwhile an obsessed man from her past is following her, talking about how she will meet her fate like the biblical Jezebel
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S04E28 The Saul Bevins Story A blind man, his sister and young son meet up with the wagon train on the trail; they are trying to find a train that will let them travel to California; Saul is a qualified doctor and has hopes of starting a blind school.
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S04E29 The Joe Muharich Story 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.
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S04E30 The Duke Shannon Story 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.
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S04E31 The Will Santee Story Will Santee, his mother, and his younger sister join the wagon train under a false surname after many towns forced them out due to the terrible actions of one family member.
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S04E32 The Jim Bridger Story Jim Bridger, who became Flint's father after his parents died, arrives at the wagon train. Flint is delighted until he realizes Bridger is working as a scout for an Army general who commandeers the train to save troops trapped by Utes.
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S04E33 The Eleanor Culhane Story Flint visits Eleanor Culhane, his former love interest who subsequently married a notorious gunman. Towns people avoid her. Believing her husband had been dead for years, Flint begins seeing her, when her husband returns. Flint realizes there is another side to Eleanor that he was unaware of as well.
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S04E34 The Chalice 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.
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S04E35 The Janet Hale Story 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.
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S04E36 Wagon to Fort Anderson Flint discovers four survivors of an Indian massacre. Despite the ordeal they've survived, they're still unaware of the danger ahead and don't know whether to trust Flint. Complicating matters, one member of the group works against Flint.
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S04E37 The Ah Chong Story Dissatisfied with Charley Wooster, Hale and Hawks push for a new cook - a Chinese cook named Ah Chong.
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S04E38 The Don Alvarado Story 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.
Season
Season 5
37 episodes
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S05E01 The Captain Dan Brady Story Dan Brady, a colorful, boisterous and veteran frontier scout famous in the East, demands to be taken on as trail scout. Hale faces a dilemma as he will lose a freight contract necessary to finance the wagon train if he doesn't hire Brady.
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S05E02 The Kitty Allbright Story Kitty Allbright is a registered nurse whose stagecoach is attacked and destroyed. Flint agrees to let her use her new skill on the wagon train. She quickly becomes disturbed at the lack of hygiene and health in general around the train.
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S05E03 The Maud Frazer Story Maud Frazer takes command of her wagon train after all the men are killed. Flint tries to dissuade Maud from going through hostile Indian country where there is gold.. She proceeds anyway but is forced to change plans.
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S05E04 The Selena Hartnell Story Selena Hartnell joins the train after bandits attack her wagon. Later, she reveals she is a bounty hunter looking for William Barrett, a murderer on the run.
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S05E05 The Clementine Jones Story Hale rescues Clementine Jones after the citizens of Cinnebar throw her out of town as an undesirable.
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S05E06 The Jenna Douglas Story Jenna Douglas is found by scouts for the wagon train. She appears to have been a victim of a scavenger attack and is adopted by the train. As time goes on people on the train begin to have doubts about her story and her mental state. Note: This episode was filmed and shown in color.
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S05E07 The Artie Matthewson Story Duke finds Flint's dying foster mother who asks Flint to check on her real son Artie who she hasn't seen in five years and has a reputation for getting into trouble with the law. Flint finds him on the right side of the law - or is he?
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S05E08 The Mark Miner Story Mark Miner and his younger brother Matthew join the wagon train after making it appear their own wagon has broken down. The passengers of the train enjoy Mark's guitar and singing, but soon items and money begin disappearing. What they don't realize is that the two brothers want to frame Duke Shannon for the thievery, because they blame him for the imprisonment of their father and want revenge for it.
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S05E09 The Bruce Saybrook Story London millionaire Lord Bruce Saybrook takes his brother, wife, and employee out west on a hunting trip hoping to repair his relationships. They run into hostile Indians. During the ensuing battle everyone's true character comes out.
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S05E10 The Lizbeth Ann Calhoun Story Lizbeth Ann Calhoun meets the wagon train staff as they stop for supplies. She asks permission to join the train so she can avoid the advances of a young man she claims is in love with her, however his real motives may be very different. Note: This episode was filmed and shown in color.
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S05E11 The Traitor Flint goes undercover to infiltrate an outlaw gang.
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S05E12 The Bettina May Story Bettina May leads three generations of her family across the plains. Other members of the wagon train as well as some family members become concerned with her over bearing nature and the level of control she exerts on the family.
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S05E13 Clyde Charlie's life undergoes an epiphany when he finds an injured buffalo and the animal befriends him. He takes the buffalo, who he calls Clyde, into the wagon train as a pet. Others, however, don't appreciate the trouble the creature causes.
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S05E14 The Martin Onyx Story A man finds a corpse that looks remarkably like himself. On an impulse he takes on the persona of the dead man only to find he was a living legend of the west and had made a lot of enemies along the way.
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S05E15 The Dick Pederson Story Overwhelmed Janey Cutler takes on her deceased father's responsibilities, including watching over her mother and 5 sisters and is suspicious of drifter Dick Pederson.
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S05E16 The Hobie Redman Story When three wagons are late in the desert, Chris sends Duke to find them and bring them to the wagon train as the train cannot wait for them. It may be a suicide mission due to water holes drying up and the missing people's personal issues.
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S05E17 The Malachi Hobart Story Duke comes across Malachi Hobart, a preacher dedicating his life to his fellow man, and is impressed with his charitable works. However, he begins to believe that the pastor is in fact a con artist who is using religion to swindle people.
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S05E18 The Dr. Denker Story After Bill comes across a boy who watched his dad die in a seemingly random attack, he meets a doctor transporting musical instruments to California.
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S05E19 The Lonnie Fallon Story Cowboy Lonnie Fallon is in love with Kathy Jennings -- but her strict father forbids the relationship. Note: This episode was filmed and shown in color
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S05E20 The Jeff Hartfield Story Jeff Hartfield becomes concerned when his sister Jenny begins dating Dallas, who threatens him with an orphanage at journey's end. Jeff takes off but Dallas follows with deadly intent, believing Jeff knows the location of $30,000.
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S05E21 The Daniel Clay Story A judge notorious for going strictly by the book in his effort to bring order to the frontier faces the ultimate test when his son finds himself in court.
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S05E22 The Lt. Burton Story A vicious sergeant looking to kill two deserters drags a fresh young lieutenant along on his vendetta and mistakes Chris for one of his targets.
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S05E23 The Charlie Shutup Story Chris and Duke try to rush a group to California despite inclement weather; Duke injures his foot, forcing him off the trail and into a cabin to heal up.
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S05E24 The Amos Billings Story The wagon train encounters Amos Billings who tells of a new road that might shorten their trip and avoid Indian trouble. Chris and Flint are very suspicious of the situation since the location has been a dead end.
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S05E25 The Baylor Crowfoot Story A teacher traveling with the wagon train encounters conflict when he become attracted to the daughter of a medicine man who has just joined the train. The man despises cowards and sees the teacher as one.
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S05E26 The George B. Hanrahan Story An ousted medicine man predicts the future of a wagon train passenger.
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S05E27 The Swamp Devil Flint leads a fragment of the wagon train on a dangerous route through a swamp that supposedly contains mysterious creatures.
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S05E28 The Cole Crawford Story The young Crawford couple is trying to leave their past behind but having difficulty doing it. The wagon train is crossing a massive ranch and the owner's son refuses to let Mrs. Crawford leave nor will the train members help them.
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S05E29 The Levi Hale Story Chris Hale is traveling to the Wyoming prison to pick up his brother Levi, who is being released from prison. Chris assumed Levi was pardoned but he was paroled to Chris. He must keep Levi out of Wyoming or he will be hanged.
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S05E30 The Terry Morrell Story After the Sheriff escorts Ben Morrell and his son Terry to the wagon train, the members find Ben Morrell and his son very antisocial: the two can't even tolerate each other. One woman wants to adopt Terry believing he is being mistreated.
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S05E31 The Jud Steele Story Bill Hawks shoots a horse thief and later discovers the man was already declared dead as a war hero.
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S05E32 The Mary Beckett Story A Frenchman arouses strong---and polarized---emotions among the wagon train members: men distrust him, women adore him. He owes a substantial gambling debt and plans to pay it off by convincing a woman to pay it until he is killed.
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S05E33 The Nancy Lee Davis Story Flint stops in a saloon with Bill and Charlie where he learns the whereabouts of a man he's been hunting for years---to kill. Bill has to restrain Flint who lapses into recalling his fiancé Nancy Lee Davis and his search for her killer.
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S05E34 The Frank Carter Story Duke's resemblance to gambler Jason Carter makes him the target for a murderer's bullet when he visits Jason Carter's hometown looking for supplies. Jason has been missing for five years and only one man knows the truth about him.
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S05E35 The John Turnbull Story Bill and Charlie looking for horses help out an old friend John Turnbull defend his reservation against local land sharks who look to initiate a range war so the army will push the local residents off their land.
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S05E36 The Hiram Winthrop Story Duke quits the wagon train to take up a steady position as Deputy Indian Agent at San Marcos on an Apache reservation under Hiram Winthrop. Hiram is an Easterner with ideas of teaching the nomadic Apache to become farmers.
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S05E37 The Heather Mahoney Story Chris Hale has dinner with a society matron whose carriage team he had stopped after being spooked. A rival for the woman's attention is Chris' first problem while the crew's attempt to sabotage their relationship is the second one.
Season
Season 6
37 episodes
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S06E01 The Wagon Train Mutiny When the preceding wagon train falls victim to attack, fear that their train will be next results in a mutiny among wagonmaster Chris' team.
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S06E02 The Caroline Casteel Story Indian captive Caroline Casteel is traded to a man who brings her to the wagon train. She encounters prejudice and hostility from many of the train members. But her biggest hurdle comes when her family, who had long given up hope, arrives.
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S06E03 The Madame Sagittarius Story Charlie offers support to a new woman who joined the train after being kicked out of Beaver City under suspicion of staging cons.
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S06E04 The Martin Gatsby Story Wealthy merchant Martin Gatsby wants to get west to open a new business. With little for compassion for others, he demands that Hale avoids delays by leaving inexperienced Caleb Lefton and his family behind.
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S06E05 The John Augustus Story John Augustus wins a game of cards with a Chinese merchant; his prize turns out to be a beautiful Chinese girl, which the rest of the train takes issue with.
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S06E06 The Mavis Grant Story In the midst of a dry spell and desperately in need of water, the wagons stop at Mavis Grant's station, the only source of water for miles. But Miss Grant is a bitter and cold hearted woman who demands an outrageous price for the water.
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S06E07 The Lisa Raincloud Story A Native American tribe prepares to execute Bill, believing he tried to rob a grave site, but plans change when the chief's daughter falls in love with Bill.
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S06E08 The Shiloh Degnan Story An officer Chris knows is found near the wagon train near death. He tells Chris that a passage in the bible describes him and his commander - Shiloh Degnan. Chris returns him to Fort Bannerman to the Army where the truth is revealed.
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S06E09 The Levy-McGowan Story When the Levy family joins the wagon train, the tranquility becomes less so as the fathers compete in checkers, young sons fight, and son and daughter fall in love. Lastly, a settler who tries to shake down the train to cross his property.
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S06E10 The John Bernard Story Indians kidnap an elderly lady on the train. They will return her when the train takes the Chief's son to the doctor and cure him. However, some on the train don't want to help. The task becomes harder when they learn what the illness is.
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S06E11 The Kurt Davos Story Highly respected Kurt Davos is badly injured while trying to save Florence Hastings on a runaway wagon. Florence, who's scared of dogs and had tried to kill Kurt's dog, volunteers to live with and care for Kurt, now paralyzed.
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S06E12 The Eve Newhope Story Patrick O'Shaughnessy has come to visit his daughter Eve, believing her to be a respectable married woman. Knowing that Eve actually is the popular owner of a saloon, Hawks, Wooster, Duke, and Eve's favorite patrons decide to change Eve.
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S06E13 The Orly French Story A Bible quoting marshal joins the wagon train with his prisoner, a young bank robber whom he claims to be trying to reform. He wants the prisoner to atone for his sins by telling the location of the money he hid from his last holdup.
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S06E14 The Donna Fuller Story After Charlie and a winemaker rescue a group of teetotal travelers from a runaway wagon, one of them falls in love with the winemaker and must reconcile her lifestyle with his profession.
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S06E15 The Sam Darland Story The wagon train finds Sam Darland with orphan boys in an old ghost town. Hale tries to convince Darland that it is not safe to stay in the town, as it in the midst of Indian territory and the leader of the tribe has been on the warpath.
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S06E16 The Abel Weatherly Story A sea captain traveling west haunted by nightmares from his past is found stranded, injured and drunk by Bill and Charlie. After hearing his story, they help him reach his destination to locate a ghost: a dead sailor that may be alive.
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S06E17 The Davey Baxter Story When his wagon falls down a cliff, Davey Baxter's mother is killed, and his arm is crushed. The doctor is unavailable, so Chris is forced to make the decision to amputate. This changes everything for Davey and the girl he plans to marry.
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S06E18 The Johnny Masters Story A sergeant becomes torn between his Cherokee roots and his loyalty to the U.S. Army when he faces a 20 year prison sentence.
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S06E19 The Naomi Kaylor Story Hawks rides to the John Kaylor ranch to buy horses for the train but John just died. His widow Naomi refuses to sell the horses at the price John had promised. Naomi shows no sorrow over her husband's death, only wanting to sell the ranch.
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S06E20 The Hollister John Garrison Story Alcoholic Southerner Stevenson Drake becomes angry with John Hollister, who never joined the Confederate Army, and suspects John of trying to lure away his wife.
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S06E21 The Lily Legend Story While riding through the desert plains, Duke and Charlie come across a sheriff as he is about to die of a heart attack and his female prisoner, Lily Legend, a childhood sweetheart of Duke who the sheriff is taking to be hanged for murder.
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S06E22 Charlie Wooster - Outlaw Bella McKavitch wants to kidnap Chris Hale, in order to find out about a gold shipment which she thinks the wagon train is carrying, but her dimwitted sons nab Wooster instead. To stop them, Wooster pretends to be a robber himself.
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S06E23 The Sarah Proctor Story Suspicions of insanity and witchcraft abound when members of the wagon train discover several broken dolls among Sarah Proctor's belongings, prompting Hale and Charlie to investigate.
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S06E24 The Emmett Lawton Story Duke Shannon stops in the town High Times and almost right away gets into a fight with, and accidentally kills, one of the gunmen who are essentially holding the town hostage. Then he finds his horse missing and ignores advice to leave.
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S06E25 The Annie Duggan Story An elderly couple and then a young girl become ill with typhoid fever on the wagon train. A young servant girl has attended to them all in isolation. One of the women on the train has an idea about the cause but no one wants to listen.
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S06E26 The Michael McGoo Story When four brothers are orphaned, no one on the train wants all four. Charlie is determined to find a home for the four together and even proposes to a spinster who wants the boys but turns him down so he looks for a husband for her.
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S06E27 The Adam MacKenzie Story The Perez family is run out of town because people believe their daughter Juana is a witch. The family joins the wagon train, and after Juana's brother Felipe is mauled by a cat, the old world is pitted against the new world of medicine.
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S06E28 The Tom Tuesday Story While scouting in Wyoming territory, Duke is forced by outlaw Tom Tuesday to act as his guide to an important rendezvous in Ruby City, Idaho. Tuesday is going blind from a gunshot wound, and Duke is able to turn the tables on him.
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S06E29 The Heather and Hamish Story Samuel MacIntosh picks Hamish Browne to marry his daughter Heather before the two have met. Heather is a naive young girl who thinks she can talk to animals, while Hamish is a backwoods boy who cares for his livestock more than for women.
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S06E30 The Blane Wessels Story Duke and three women under attack by Cheyenne Indians are helped by a stranger who has a fatalistic attitude toward life. They take refuge in a relay station where the stranger slowly relays his past to the others while they hope for help.
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S06E31 The Tom O'Neal Story Tom O'Neal and Ellen Howard want to get married, but their parents object, so Tom takes money from his father's savings and runs away with Ellen. They soon realize that that was an unwise decision.
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S06E32 The Clarence Mullins Story Duke and Charlie leave the train for supplies and to see Duke's old friends at a fort. One is a minister who was cashiered out of the Army who is trying to create peace with the Modocs despite a Major who only wants to kill all Indians.
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S06E33 The David Garner Story Hale is entrusted to deliver $8,000 to a bank. Young David Garner is determined to steal it and he stows along on the wagon train, along with a girl who's in love with him. Following them is a shady man who seems to have a hold over David.
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S06E34 Alias Bill Hawks Bill Hawks receives a note asking him to help an Indian friend of his from the Civil War. He arrives to find the local town drilling a well on the man's property and eventually that the man has been hanged for attacking a local girl.
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S06E35 The Antone Rose Story Invalid rancher Henry Ludlow is so determined that daughter Judy not marry Basque sheepherder Antone Rose that he sells his land and joins the wagon train to head west. When Antone learns of this, he joins the train as well to marry her.
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S06E36 The Jim Whitlow Story Duke Shannon returns to check on his small ranch he split evenly with a childhood friend. When he arrives he finds tenant farmers being bull-whipped and a ruthless foreman his partner does not want to fire claiming he is needed.
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S06E37 The Barnaby West Story Bill meets young Barnaby West, who claims he is traveling west to see his father, a famous frontiersman. Bill invites him to join the wagon train. But he and the others wonder just how much, if any, of young Barnaby's story is really true.
Season
Season 7
32 episodes
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S07E01 The Molly Kincaid Story After leaving St. Joseph, Hale tells everyone there are no Indians when in fact two escaped Comanches have stolen horses and shown up at the wagon train's first stop. There, the female wants to kill a man... her cowardly husband.
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S07E02 The Fort Pierce Story As the wagon train reaches Fort Pierce, it is in dangerous Indian country. Chris is hoping the Army will provide an escort when they leave, but the Colonel refuses due to Army orders. In fact, he wants the lone woman there to leave with the train.
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S07E03 The Gus Morgan Story A tough railroad executive and his younger college educated brother are guided by Chris up a mountain to scout a route. When is accidentally shot by the younger brother, the older brother is forced to make a tough decision he may regret.
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S07E04 The Widow O'Rourke Story When Duke and Charlie do not return from a scouting assignment, Chris sends Cooper who has a pretty good idea what lays ahead. The Chinese widow of an Irish Ship Captain wants Coop to carry on her husband's empire.
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S07E05 The Robert Harrison Clarke Story A British newspaper reporter rides along on the wagon train to observe the Wild West.
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S07E06 The Myra Marshall Story A woman tries to save her sister from a miserable life in a mining town.
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S07E07 The Sam Spicer Story After witnessing a bank holdup, Barnaby is taken hostage by outlaws Sam Spicer and Reno Sutton. Sam takes a liking to the boy as he reminds him of himself when Reno first made him a partner but Reno doesn't trust Barnaby.
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S07E08 The Sam Pulaski Story On the train Coop is falling for the sister of the man running a gang who beat and robbed Coop in Hell's Kitchen in Brooklyn. Coop believes the man who says he is going west to change but his goons are still plying their scam on the train.
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S07E09 The Eli Bancroft Story Eli Bancroft became an outlaw looking for revenge raising his three sons as such after a town's citizens banded together and forced his entire family to uproot, fearing they would catch their illness. Coop and others become his victims.
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S07E10 The Kitty Pryer Story Kitty Pryer finds herself in a bigamous marriage to Victor Harpe, who asks her to join him on the wagon train posing as the wife of a friend until he can divorce his wife. However, Victor's change of plans puts Kitty in unique peril.
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S07E11 The Sandra Cummings Story Sandra Cummings is an escapee from a Confederate prison. Against her wishes, Cooper Smith takes an interest in her daughter Paula.
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S07E12 The Bleecker Story The Bleecker gang attempt to use the wagon train to rob a fort.
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S07E13 The Story of Cain While in the desert, Cooper finds a prospector who is lost and near death from exposure and thirst.
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S07E14 The Cassie Vance Story Cassie Vance is accused of theft when money and items belonging to a woman on the train that she nursed turn up missing, and especially after another woman recognizes Cassie as having served time in prison for theft when young.
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S07E15 The Fenton Canaby Story Fenton Canaby is unjustly reputed to have led a wagon train to disaster in the desert. He unexpectedly becomes part of Hale's train as Hale has some of the same problems Canaby had and the train carries a widow wanting revenge against Canaby.
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S07E16 The Michael Malone Story Julie Holland is falling for Michael Malone, a man haunted by the death of his sister. Meanwhile, the marriage of Ben and Beth Mitchell is strained because of Beth's increasing bitterness toward her husband and her feeling of unworthiness.
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S07E17 The Jed Whitmore Story Jed Whitmore, one of three brothers that committed an infamous train robbery, is now town sheriff Frank Lewis but his brother released from prison comes to town with a fellow inmate and a reporter to get paid for the Jed Whitmore story.
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S07E18 The Geneva Balfour Story Chris Hale has loaded up on supplies because he has learned the Army has closed the normal trail so the wagon train is forced to take a difficult and dry route through the desert. Judge Arthur Forbes questions Hale's decisions, as do others. Geneva Balfour ignites a fire in hopes she and her husband Aaron will turn around and head east.
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S07E19 The Kate Crawley Story Independent freight line operator Kate Crawley and Christopher Hale are attracted to each other. Stump Beasley has his own sights focused on marrying Kate Crawley.
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S07E20 The Grover Allen Story After being fired and setting a bomb which kills his tyrannical boss, Grover Allen joins the wagon train and heads west with his widowed daughter-in-law Della and grandson Jeff. A detective searching for Allen joins the wagon train.
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S07E21 The Andrew Elliott Story Duke Shannon is arrested and charged with criminal negligence, being the only survivor of an expedition into the badlands. The investigation is being headed by Senator Harold Elliott and Major Ogden. He must retrace his steps with the Army and one of the victims' father.
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S07E22 The Melanie Craig Story When Melanie Craig is widowed in a wagon accident, she enjoys life as she believes her husband would have wanted her to. There is no shortage of men who want to court her.
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S07E23 The Pearlie Garnet Story Beautiful but shrewd Pearlie Garnet was forced to leave the wagon train after she was found to be a liar, manipulator, and thief who stole from everyone on the train.
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S07E24 The Trace McCloud Story A murderer is on the loose in the town of Bedrock. Marshal Trace McCloud has been unsuccessful in capturing the killer. When most of the population joins the wagon train, so does the killer.
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S07E25 The Duncan McIvor Story Duke and Bill are rescued from Indians by a stranger. He joins the train which is headed to Fort Chacon. Unknown to them he is an Army officer. Members of the train are offered stolen Army supplies creating a problem for the officer.
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S07E26 The Ben Engel Story Ben Engel and his employee Harry Diel are moving the Engle store to the west. During the Civil War, Engle paid Diel to take his place. Diel was subsequently decorated as a war hero.
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S07E27 The Whipping With Chris gone Bill is in charge of the train when Barnaby goes overboard in his pranks. After messing with a wagon wheel, Bill orders him to fix it by himself causing Barnaby to break his leg causing a major rift between them.
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S07E28 The Santiago Quesada Story Kim Case is returning home during Indian wars after schooling in the east although her parents have died. She is anxious to return to the man she loves, Lance Starbuck, who is an Indian raised by an Army Major from a young age.
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S07E29 The Stark Bluff Story At the town of Stark Bluff, Duke stops by to visit an old friend, only to find that friend is now dead. His widow is forced to work for Zeb Stark, who is ruthless in his intimidation of everyone, including elected officials.
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S07E30 The Link Cheney Story Coop brings Link Cheney to the wagon train after the professional gambler is wounded by sore losers in a game. Link is nursed back to health by Dorthea Gillford, and the two fall in love, but Dorthea hopes Link will quit gambling.
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S07E31 The Zebedee Titus Story Barnaby and Charlie talk Chris Hale into hiring legendary mountain man Zebedee Titus as a scout. The nearly 80 year old Zeb's failing eyesight leads to problems including Coop's being captured by the Comanche Zeb couldn't see.
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S07E32 The Last Circle Up As the wagon train approaches the end of the trail, Hale's crew and passengers deal with birth, death, romance, a clash of different faiths, anger, gambling, a medical emergency, and a cooking contest as they prepare to separate.
Season
Season 8
26 episodes
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S08E01 The Bob Stuart Story Wagon train scout Cooper Smith was once shot in the back by retired Marshal Bob Stuart. Cooper must now escort Stuart and his wife Janice to the train. Thomas Lance and his younger brother Keith are also on the train. They, too, seek revenge for a brain injury inflicted by Stuart.
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S08E02 The Hide Hunters Hide hunters, hunters who kill buffalo for their hides only, have temporarily joined up with the wagon train. One of their number, Gib Ryker, is a sociopath who enjoys antagonizing young Barnaby West.
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S08E03 The John Gillman Story John Gillman being chased and shot in the leg by a posse escapes via a river. He is found downriver nearly passes out by a young orphan girl Abigail. She takes a liking to him but he tries to rebuff her. However, events cause a change.
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S08E04 The Race Town Story Believing Annabelle Day from the train has been hired as a singer by Sam Race in his tent city, Barnaby West feels protective of her when he realizes she is just a saloon girl. In turn, Bill Hawks wants to protect both of them.
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S08E05 The Barbara Lindquist Story Going to the aid of a stagecoach under fire, Coop finds a Bostonian lady to be the only surviving passenger.
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S08E06 The Brian Conlin Story Brian Conlin is in charge of some Irish immigrants who were shunned elsewhere, and in need of help. Coop is willing to help, but the immigrants have been so badly treated by others, that they are wary of Coop.
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S08E07 The Alice Whitetree Story Alice Whitetree is the sole survivor of a tribe that was massacred ten years earlier. Coop, who rescued her, falls in love. As Coop hears varied stories from others about her background, he tries to find out if there is any truth in what he is told.
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S08E08 Those Who Stay Behind The train doesn't have enough room for all who want to join, including an ex-convict whose life has been threatened by his former partner.
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S08E09 The Nancy Styles Story Spoiled Nancy Styles, claiming to be the daughter of the owner of the company that owns the wagon train, is determined to get to Denver by forcing her way onto it and then Hale makes it clear he plans to bypass the city due to early snow.
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S08E10 The Richard Bloodgood Story A blind man called Sangre has joined the wagon train along with his guide Espada. He is actually Coop's boyhood blood brother Richard Bloodgood, and he openly states his plan to kill Coop. Coop gets very hostile and refuses to discuss it whenever Charlie or Barnaby ask the reason Richard wants to kill him, but they know it has to do with the death of a beautiful woman long ago.
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S08E11 The Clay Shelby Story Trouble strikes the wagon train when Coop is wounded, Hawks falls ill and a band of hostile Indians prepares to attack.
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S08E12 Little Girl Lost A little girl, crying each night, appears to be a ghost from The Donner Party. Many people hear her, but she appears each night to Charlie, who questions his own sanity.
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S08E13 The Story of Hector Heatherton Charlie has finally found someone else who shares his dream of man being able to fly, henpecked inventor Hector Heatherton, who has been working on an idea for building a flying machine so Charlie volunteers to build a machine for Hector.
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S08E14 The Echo Pass Story While out looking for water Coop and Charlie are stopped by a gang of five, including two women, who are on the run after robbing a bank and killing three lawmen. The leader of the gang shoots Charlie after tying him up, and they take Coop to lead them through a mountain pass to get to California.
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S08E15 The Chottsie Gubenheimer Story Hale finds his old flame Chottsie Gubenheimer working in a gambling house and in an argument with the owner, so he asks her to come with him and join the wagon train. He comes to realize that he's getting more problems than he bargained for.
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S08E16 The Wanda Snow Story Wanda Snow has several times seen events before they have happened, causing several people on the wagon train to accuse her of being a witch. A medicine show peddler/magician gets the idea to use her in his act, but this creates friction between him and his devious partner.
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S08E17 The Isaiah Quickfox Story Coop and Charlie ride into a small village for supplies finding it deserted. There is an Indian who stays hidden and later three men and a woman ride into town. They have been looking for the woman's father in a cave filled with bats.
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S08E18 Herman The wagon train comes across old Jamison Hershey and Herman, his 3000 pound Belgian horse. The old man has made it safely through hostile Indian territory because the tribes are so in awe of his horse. Hershey and Herman are invited to ride with the train, though it becomes apparent that Herman is not able to travel very fast and may hold back the entire group.
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S08E19 The Bonnie Brooke Story Don Brooke is desperate for money for his pregnant wife Bonnie, who's condition is too delicate for the long trip without more medical care so he seeks a bank loan. When he sees an opportunity at the bank, it leads to tragedy.
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S08E20 The Miss Mary Lee McIntosh Story Teacher Mary Lee McIntosh refuses to pay what she feels is an excessive fee to join the wagon train, so she decides instead to follow behind it in her wagon alone, and refuses help from Hale. But after her wagon overturns, things change.
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S08E21 The Captain Sam Story Tough and headstrong female ferryboat captain Samantha Stewart is asked by her son Johnny and his bride to accompany them on the wagon train to California, where they will board a ship for a Pacific voyage. But actually, Johnny is not telling his proud mother that her doctor has told him that she must stay with a dry climate on land or she will die.
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S08E22 The Betsy Blee Smith Story Despite the advice of some, Coop decides to visit former girlfriend Eloise Blee, but finds Eloise gone, and instead winds up being talked into posing as her twin-sister Betsy's missing husband and father of her baby daughter.
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S08E23 The Katy Piper Story Barnaby is forced to shoot and kill a boy his own age who took a woman and her daughters hostage. He is cleared of any wrongdoing but cannot shake the blood he feels is on his hands plus the judge wants him to inform the boy's mother.
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S08E24 The Indian Girl Story Hawks refuses to turn an Indian girl over to Chief Crazy Bear, who wants to punish her for killing his son.
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S08E25 The Silver Lady Coop tells Bill the story of the Earp brothers and the Silver Lady, a woman who was encased in a coffin of silver coins that melted around her after the stagecoach she was riding on and guarded by Morgan Earp had an accident and burned.
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S08E26 The Jarbo Pierce Story Charlie talks about his younger days in Pierce's Bend, when he worked for a rugged, God fearing trading post operator.