Wagon Train
The Janet Hale Story
Season 4, Episode 35 · Aired 1961-05-31
Synopsis
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.
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