Wagon Train
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.
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