Wagon Train
The Sam Elder Story
Season 4, Episode 17 · Aired 1961-01-18
Synopsis
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.
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