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Wagon Train - Episode Guide

Season 1

The Jean LeBec Story

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1957

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.

The John Darro Story

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1957

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.

The Julie Gage Story

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1957

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.

The Dora Gray Story

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1958

The Dora Gray Story

Flint runs afoul of crooked soldiers selling guns to the Indians.

The Marie Dupree Story

Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1958

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.

The Monty Britton Story

Episode: 1x38 | Airdate: Jun 18, 1958

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.

Season 2

The Liam Fitzmorgan Story

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1958

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.

The Beauty Jamison Story

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1958

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.

The Mary Ellen Thomas Story

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Dec 24, 1958

The Mary Ellen Thomas Story

A hostile orphan girl accompanies her friend: another girl dying of consumption.

The Ben Courtney Story

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1959

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The inhabitants of Bitter Springs are hostile to a Southern family who adopted a black child. The Sheriff is behind their intolerant attitude. 

The Jasper Cato Story

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1959

The Jasper Cato Story

Jasper Cato joins the train, claiming to be looking for man who has an inheritance waiting for him back east.

The Matthew Lowry Story

Episode: 2x26 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1959

The Matthew Lowry Story

Matthew Lowry, a one-armed Quaker, helps the train when they risk infection of cholera, and Adams faces a mutiny.

The Swift Cloud Story

Episode: 2x27 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1959

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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. 

The Vincent Eaglewood Story

Episode: 2x28 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1959

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.

The Jose Maria Moran Story

Episode: 2x34 | Airdate: May 27, 1959

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.

Season 3

The Estaban Zamora Story

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1959

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.

The Elizabeth McQueeny Story

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1959

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.

The Martha Barham Story

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1959

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.

The Cappy Darrin Story

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1959

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.

The Felizia Kingdom Story

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1959

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.

The Jess MacAbbee Story

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1959

The Jess MacAbbee Story

While scouting for meat, Flint stumbles across an oasis-like valley protected by Jess MacAbbee, who forces his daughters to do the work while cliaiming that Indians lurk just outside the valley.

The Danny Benedict Story

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1959

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.

The Vittorio Botticelli Story

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1959

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.

The St. Nicholas Story

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 23, 1959

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?

The Ruth Marshall Story

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1959

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.

The Lita Foladaire Story

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1960

The Lita Foladaire Story

The train comes across a dying woman, and Seth sets out to discover who killed her.

The Colonel Harris Story

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1960

The Colonel Harris Story

Flint gets caught in a war between two old friends: an Army Colonel and a Comanche leader.

The Maidie Brandt Story

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1960

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.

The Larry Hanify Story

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1960

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.

The Clayton Tucker Story

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1960

The Clayton Tucker Story

A small train of three wagons hoping to meet the Adams train is on their own when their scout dies.

The Benjamin Burns Story

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1960

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.

The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1960

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.

The Tom Tuckett Story

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1960

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.

The Tracy Sadler Story

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1960

The Tracy Sadler Story

Tracy Sadler is trying to track down her son, David Forest. But her assistant Cadge has other plans.

The Alexander Portlass Story

Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Mar 16, 1960

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.

The Christine Elliot Story

Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: Mar 23, 1960

The Christine Elliot Story

Christine Elliot plans to fulfill her dead father's dream of starting a boys school, but someone plans to stop her.

The Joshua Gilliam Story

Episode: 3x25 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1960

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.

The Maggie Hamilton Story

Episode: 3x26 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1960

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.

The Jonas Murdock Story

Episode: 3x27 | Airdate: Apr 13, 1960

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.

Trial for Murder (1)

Episode: 3x29 | Airdate: Apr 27, 1960

Trial for Murder (1)

Seth is forced to hold a trial when a member of the wagon train is found murdered.

Trial for Murder (2)

Episode: 3x30 | Airdate: May 4, 1960

Trial for Murder (2)

Iver's wife Leslie appears to provide testimony that may clear the defendant's name.

The Countess Baranof Story

Episode: 3x31 | Airdate: May 11, 1960

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.

The Dick Jarvis Story

Episode: 3x32 | Airdate: May 18, 1960

The Dick Jarvis Story

A crippled Jick Darvis befirends a runaway, Joiey Henshaw, over his mother's objections.

The Dr. Swift Cloud Story

Episode: 3x33 | Airdate: May 25, 1960

The Dr. Swift Cloud Story

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.

The Luke Grant Story

Episode: 3x34 | Airdate: Jun 1, 1960

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.

The Charlene Brenton Story

Episode: 3x35 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1960

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

The Sam Livingston Story

Episode: 3x36 | Airdate: Jun 15, 1960

The Sam Livingston Story

Missionairy Abigail Newkirk finds a replacement driver, Sam Livingston, who is traveling with his friend Cass Fleming.

The Shadrack Bennington Story

Episode: 3x37 | Airdate: Jun 22, 1960

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 4

Wagons Ho!

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1960

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The Horace Best Story

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1960

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.

The Albert Farnsworth Story

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1960

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.

The Allison Justis Story

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1960

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.

The Jose Morales Story

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1960

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.

The Princess of a Lost Tribe

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1960

The Princess of a Lost Tribe

Flint takes three men to investigate Haunted Mountain, and finds a lost tribe of Aztecs.

The Cathy Eckhart Story

Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1960

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.

The River Crossing

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1960

The River Crossing

Colonel Buckner mistakenly wipes out a Comanche Indian village of women and children, and now Comanche braves are looking for revenge.

The Jeremy Dow Story

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Dec 28, 1960

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.

The Path of the Serpent

Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1961

The Path of the Serpent

A dying soldier asks his old friend Ruddy Blaine to bring his daughter Penelope to him before he expires.

Season 5

Clyde

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Dec 27, 1961

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The Malachi Hobart Story

Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1962

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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. 

The Dr. Denker Story

Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1962

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Bill spots a young boy alone on the trail. He passes out but they later learn he can't talk but that he saw his dad killed by strangers for no apparent reason. Later, they run into Dr. Denker taking musical instruments to California. 

The Amos Billings Story

Episode: 5x24 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1962

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.

Season 6

Alias Bill Hawks

Episode: 6x34 | Airdate: May 15, 1963

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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. 

Season 7

Season 8

Herman

Episode: 8x18 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1965

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