Wagon Train
The Patience Miller Story
Season 4, Episode 16 · Aired 1961-01-11
Synopsis
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.
In the series
This episode is part of Wagon Train (1957–1965) on NBC/ABC.
A moving town of guest stars — the prairie as anthology stagecoach.
Key cast
- Ward Bond as Major Seth Adams
- Robert Horton as Flint McCullough
- John McIntire as Christopher Hale
- Frank McGrath as Charlie Wooster