Willy Moran, Adams' old Civil War commanding officer, is now a drunken wino. Adams offers him a job on the wagon train provided that he stay sober.
A New Orleans aristocrat who's escorting a young lass to San Francisco arouses the fury of a tyrannical town boss.
The husband of a much younger woman grows jealous of her flirtatious ways.
A woman's brother kills a man who made a derogatory remark about her only to discover later that the remark was true.
Dean Stockwell played the brother (killer) and Shelley Winters was the sister who worked as a call girl in the past. He shot one of the wagontrain travelers who knew Ruth Owens (Shelley Winters) in the past and told Jimmy (Dean) what she was. Jimmy shot the man in self defense and was found innocent by the end of the episode. Kent Smith played Ruth's husband.
A paroled convict blames his physician father for the death of his Native American wife.
Nels Stack enrages his fellow wagon train passengers when he befriends an elderly Native American.
When her husband gets killed on the way to California, Emily Rossiter quickly re-marries in order to provide stability for her daughter. Unbeknownst to Emily, hubby number two is a ruthless outlaw.
A couple on the train try to keep the husband's past from their son but a tramp threatens to expose the secret.
Flint suspects that an Army officer has an ulterior motive when he accompanies him to deliver a peace treaty to a once hostile Native American chief.
Mary Halstead joins the wagon train to search for the son she deserted years before. Could a wounded young man picked up by the train be Mary's long lost son?
Zeke Thomas and his second wife are headed west with the train when he's confronted with a huge problem. During a stopover, Zeke sees his first wife who's very much alive.
Major Adams sets out to recover passengers' money which was taken from them by con man Riley Gratton.
A cavalry colonel's wife tries to start a war with Native Americans as part of a convoluted scheme to get her husband promoted and transferred back East.
Julia Gage is an independent wench who refuses to admit that she needs a man's help to drive her wagon. Major Adams persuades the shy Tobe Cannon to give her a hand anyway.
Cliff Grundy is seriously injured in a buffalo stampede. Flint and another passenger tend to Cliff's injuries but the other passenger has a hidden motive--he wants the location of a gold mine and thinks Grundy knows it.
Luke O'Malley, fleeing Mexican bandits whom he doublecrossed, joins the wagon train disguised as a minister.
Civil War vet Jesse Cowan approaches the wagon train seeking vengeance on those he holds responsible for the deaths of his mother and father.
Scout/trapper Gabe Carswell tries to reconcile with his half-Native American son but it seems as though the lad has developed a hatred for all white men.
During a stopover in the town of Adobe Flats, a local Lothario puts the moves on a female passenger.
Flint goes after a gunrunner who happens to be traveling with a woman of notoriety named Dora Gray.
A group of Scotsmen (and women) traveling with the wagon train cause friction by playing their bagpipes and practicing other customs associated with the old country. Then the clan chief's daughter falls in love with an American young man.
It could be mutiny when passengers begin agitating for a new wagon master after Major Adams befriends a Sioux traveling with the train.
A youth who blames his father for the betrayal of his Native American mother plots his revenge.
Bernal Sierra, a follower of Benito Juarez, joins the train in search of two thieves who stole a cache of gold bound for the Juaristas.
Marie Dupree is a flirtatious young woman who soon has many of the men in the wagon train at each other's throats.
When Major Adams encounters a white man dressed in Native American clothing and calling himself Horse he gets the man to relate his unusual story.
Flint gets involved in a bitter feud between neighbors while seeking temporary lodging.
A young beauty who joins the train has an immediate impact on the lives of a bitter father and his rebellious son but things seem destined for tragedy.
When his wife is critically injured in an accident, a passenger refuses to allow any treatment other than prayer.
After many years, Major Adams is reunited with his first love, Ranie Douglas, when she joins his wagon train heading for Arizona.
Major Adams tries to rekindle his romance with old flame Ranie Douglas but finds that the lady isn't quite so eager.
Adams becomes suspicious of a soldier who's supposedly providing protection for the wagon train from bandits.
Major Adams finds himself reunited with Dan Hogan, a bareknuckle prizefighter whom he once managed.
Major Adams takes young Ruttledge Munroe onto the wagon train after learning that Munroe has lost his horse. Ruttledge soon proves his worth by shooting two men attempting to rob the train but this action terrifies fellow passenger Ruth Hadley, whom Ruttledge has become enamored with.
Wild West Show star and reputed hero Rex Montana joins the wagon train and soon gives Flint and Major Adams reason to believe that he's a fraud.
A tough, old broad named Cassie Tanner joins the wagon train and soon decides that Major Adams is the man for her.
Flint and Major Adams temporarily switch jobs to settle an argument over who works harder. While Adams rides ahead to scout the territory, Flint must contend with a man who insists that a fellow passenger is none other than Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth.
Running short of water in the Nevada desert, the only hope for the train lies with a nearby Army camp but the one man with the train who knows its location refuses to go there for help.
Several previous passengers return as the wagon train reaches its final destination of Sacramento, California. Meanwhile, Flint accompanies Maxwell and Julie Revere to the ranch which Maxwell bought five years before and will see for the first time.
Adams, Wooster, Hawks, and old pal Willy Moran are shanghaied aboard a ship headed for New Orleans--by way of South America.
Flint and Major Adams encounter a Mexican youth who's in shock after witnessing his father's lynching by three men.
Jennifer Churchill runs away and joins the wagon train heading west after her father tries to force her into an arranged marriage.
Drifter Tobias Jones and a young orphan stow away on the wagon train but soon a man is found murdered with Tobias' knife.
Irish rebel Liam Fitzmorgan joins the train hoping to find the traitor responsible for the capture and execution of several of his comrades.
A female doctor must treat a badly injured Native American chief or his fellow tribesmen will attack the wagon train.
Francis Mason joins the wagon train hoping to meet up with a man named Bije Wilcox. It seems as though Wilcox has information regarding Mason's long-missing brother.
Scouting ahead for the train, Flint meets up with an old galpal and poses as her husband so that she can keep her adopted daughter.
Samurai warrior Sakae Ito and his servant, Matsu, join the train carrying a large urn. Three assclowns, sure that the urn contains gold, abscond with the object.
After an argument with Major Adams, Flint quits the wagon train and becomes marshal of a place called Tent City.
Wealthy rancher Beauty Jamison denies the wagon train permission to cross her land due to the fact that Flint is friendly with neighboring small ranchers with whom she's in conflict.
An orphan girl with a sour disposition, traveling West to stay with relatives, soon alienates her fellow wagon train passengers.
Dick Richardson, who once served a jail term for embezzlement, joins the wagon train. Also aboard the train is a family whose funds Dick once embezzled.
A former dance hall gal joins the wagon train but gets a chilly reception from the other women who soon demand that Major Adams send her packing.
Upon his arrival at Fort Bridger, Flint encounters an old enemy.
When gold is discovered on the trail by thief Hunter Malloy, many of the passengers want to stop and prospect but Major Adams knows they must move on before severe winter weather arrives.
Flint escorts two couples to a settlement but the residents there don't want one of the couples to stay because they have an adopted Afro-American son.
When her husband dies suddenly, Ella Lindstrom is left alone to fend for her seven children on the wagon train to California.
Flint rescues the bedraggled survivor of a lost wagon train and a found diary indicates that the man's survival cost the other passenger's their lives.
Flint escorts a family to a settlement only to be robbed by a bandit along the way.
After being waylaid and left for dead on a mountain pass, Flint is rescued and nursed back to health by tough old mountain gal Annie Griffith. But she wants to trade him to the nearby Native Americans in return for supplies.
Major Adams is suspicious of Jasper Cato, a Bostonian who has joined the wagon train in search of a newspaper editor who's an old pal of the Major's.
Flint escorts Vivian Carter to a town in order to meet her fiancee only to discover that he's already married.
Conchita Vasquez lures Flint into a trap set by bandits but later decides to help him.
Flint guides three nuns to Nevada where they hope to start a mission school for Native Americans.
A one-armed Quaker is considered a coward by his younger brother and fellow passengers.
After a Native American attack on the wagon train, Major Adams spares the life of Swift Cloud, the crippled son of a Native American chief. But then the Major learns that Swift Cloud's condition is the result of an assault from one of his fellow tribesmen.
Meek Vincent Eaglewood is hired as the schoolteacher for the children on the wagon train but the Major starts worrying when he takes his pupils on nature walks in hostile Native American territory.
Clara Duncan heads west with the wagon train to try to locate her missing artist fiancee.
Escaped convict Duke LeMay joins the wagon train but a deputy sheriff is in hot pursuit.
While Kate Parker tends an injured couple, her husband decides to kill them for the gold they are carrying.
Flint and two passengers are forced to seek shelter in a cave while searching for a trail through a snow blocked mountain pass.
Cook Charlie Wooster takes over as wagonmaster when Major Adams, Flint, and Hawks all disappear mysteriously in a blizzard.
Adams rescues a half breed who was staked and left to die in the desert.
After preacher Andrew Hale accidentally kills one of his congregation members in a shooting, he wanders into the desert where he's found by the approaching wagon train.
Among a band of Native Americans found wandering by the wagon train is a young white man named Rodney Lawrence.
A woman joins the wagon train hoping to find husbands for her four daughters. Major Adams tries to lend a helping hand.
After reaching the end of the trail, Major Adams tries to help a woman locate her mother in San Francisco.
Major Adams, Hawks, and Wooster discover that Flint McCullough is driving the stagecoach they're taking from San Francisco back to St. Louis.
Adams is amused at first by the antics of greenhorn Samuel Evans but then becomes alarmed when the tenderfoot begins getting into more serious trouble.
Female reporter C. L. Harding is assigned to travel west with Major Adams' wagon train. Once aboard she begins organizing a suffragette movement among the the train's wives.
Basque sheepman Estaban Zamora swears revenge upon the killer of one of his sons.
Impresario Elizabeth McQueeny joins the wagon train along with twelve beauties whom the women on the train instantly dislike.
Flint tries to warn a fort about an impending Native American attack but its commander refuses to believe his information.
An elderly riverboat captain and his grandson join the wagon train but leave once they approach their destination.
Flint is taken prisoner when he asks permission from a strong-willed woman for the wagon train to cross her land.
Jess MacAbbee has always sheltered his five beautiful daughters from the outside world so that they will stay and provide labor for his ranch. Things change rather quickly when Flint McCullough arrives on the scene.
Major Adams meets up with a youth who is running away from an abusive father who plans to send the lad to military school against his wishes.
An exiled Italian duke joins the wagon train and soon begins charming both the single and the married females.
On Christmas Eve, the wagon train stops to make camp and a young boy wanders off to find St. Nicholas.
Flint volunteers to search for Ruth Marshall, a young girl who was abducted by the Sioux in a raid on a wagon train eleven years before.
Major Adams sets out to find the parties responsible for leaving a woman unconscious and near death on the trail.
Arriving at Fort Harris, Flint finds two old pals locked in a senseless feud.
A beautiful woman distrusts all men and teaches her son to hold the weak and helpless in contempt. Another passenger seeks to discover her reasons.
Flint agrees to a dying man's request to take his son onto San Francisco with the wagon train but the youth soon begins causing all sorts of trouble which threatens to delay the train's progress.
A small band of travelers is making their way through the desert for a rendezvous with the wagon train but then their guide dies from snakebite and they are forced to go it alone.
When the wagon train begins running low on water, old-timer Benjamin Burns says he knows the location of another watering place. Burns, Flint, and a third passenger set out in search of the water but soon run into discontent and trouble.
A man traveling west with his wife and infant son becomes jealous of the attention she showers on their newborn.
A hunted fugitive risks capture to see a youth who once helped him elude capture.
A woman recently released from prison joins the wagon train in search of her long-lost son.
An archaeologist and an outlaw gang searching for buried treasure kidnap Flint and force him to guide them through the desert.
A woman helps a group of boys who have run off from unbearable conditions at an orphan home.
Con artist Joshua Gilliam, found beaten and left for dead on the trail by Major Adams, offers to teach school in return for his passage.
Spoiled brat Maggie Hamilton, in a ploy for attention, wanders off from the train and gets captured by outlaws. Flint tracks Maggie down and rescues her but she's not exactly grateful for his efforts.
Defying the ban of a Native American chief against hunting in his territory, Jonas Murdock gets caught snaring rabbits by Major Adams.
Flint is captured by a band of slave traders and tries to organize a revolt amongst his fellow captives.
A member of the wagon train is found murdered and all the evidence appears to point to a surly, unpopular passenger.
To avert a lynching, Major Adams allows the wagon train party to hold their own trial for a man accused of murdering a fellow passenger.
A Russian countess, in a hurry to reach Alaska before it's sold to the United States, uses all her wiles to persuade Flint to leave the train and guide her over a shorter route to San Francisco.
Major Adams becomes a father figure to a crippled boy.
The wagon train runs into their old pal Swift Cloud who's on his way back to his Native American village after studying medicine in China but the aspiring physician faces resentment from both whites and his own people.
Friendly Native Americans find a man dying of thirst in the desert and bring him to the wagon train. He's then recognized by a female passenger as a man she once loved.
A stagecoach arrives in the settlement of Apache Flats. It's only occupants are an infant girl and her dead mother.
Sam Livingston arrives in Carson City with a pet pig, a fortune in gold, and a plan of revenge against the town banker.
Medicine man Shad Bennington joins the wagon train on the last leg of its journey with an unusual traveling companion--a performing lion.
Flashbacks abound when Flint finds a book written by Samuel Evans, a former passenger on his wagon train.
Preparing for another trip West, Adams takes distant cousin Horace Best, who wants to be a wagonmaster, under his wing. But Horace might not be up to the task.
A former British Army surgeon joins the wagon train and soon alienates his fellow passengers with his insistence that the British way is superior to all things American.
Flint shoots a horse thief who turns out to be the husband of an old galpal--and the respected mayor of a nearby town.
Bill Hawks guides three wagons through Sioux territory. Surprisingly they receive no trouble from the Native Americans but plenty from a group of Mexican banditos.
Flint and three others stumble upon a lost Aztec city ruled by a man who calls himself Montezuma IX.
Major Adams investigates when wagon trains begin disappearing after going through a mountain pass.
On their way to the Dakotas, Flint and his party get bogged down by hellacious rainstorms.
Haunted by his experiences in the Civil War, a former Army doctor has taken to the bottle. Major Adams tries to straighten him out by relating the story of another famous heavy drinker--General and later President Ulysses S. Grant.
Flint discovers that the wounded Jane Hawkins is wanted for the murder of the son of a rancher who rules a nearby town with an iron fist.
A recent widower with a young son is anxious to find a new wife. He sets his sights on Candy O'Hara but Candy might not be the motherly type.
The wagon train faces two obstacles: a badly swollen river and hostile Comanches who might destroy the train unless it somehow makes it across the water.
An idealistic young clergyman takes it upon himself to try and reform an outlaw.
The Millikans hire drifter Jeff Durant to drive their wagon west but there's something eerily familiar about him.
Bounty hunter Earl Packer goes off in pursuit of a once respected sheriff who's now wanted for murder.
A Quaker missionary becomes involved in an inter-tribal war between the Comanches and the Arapahos.
When Bill Hawks allows Sam Elder and a group of orphan boys to join the train, Elder meets with animosity from another passenger over events that occurred during the Civil War.
Major Adams and Bill Hawks have a falling out over how to deal with attacking Native Americans.
The endless prairie and its associated pitfalls and hazards begins to take its toll on the morale of the train's female passengers.
A mountain man escorts a young girl through a dangerous mountain trail so that she can see her severely wounded cavalry sergeant father.
In this serio-comic episode, Flint keeps encountering more and more lost children while on his way for supplies.
Major Adams falls for Beth Pearson who's the spitting image of the woman he once loved.
Four men want to kill a newly arrived passenger to avenge a wrong done at the notorious Andersonville prison camp during the Civil War.
Nancy Palmer's numerous acts of kindness endear her to the other passengers but it's really a sham. It seems that Nancy and her husband are planning to rob a bank located in an upcoming town on the trail.
New wagonmaster Christopher Hale is still haunted by the loss of his family in a Native American massacre.
Bill Hawks leads four wagons to Los Angeles only to be halted by Tiburcio Mendez and his pistoleros who are determined to keep gringos out of that area of California.
Charlie Wooster become enthralled with a famous actress who's traveling with the train and begins waiting on her hand and foot.
Saul Bevins, who is blind, persuades Hale to allow him to travel with the wagon train.
A Polish immigrant, who recently lost his wife and son, befriends a rebellious youth but this time things don't work out for the better.
Duke Shannon joins the train as a scout and it doesn't take him long to get into mischief when he persuades Charlie Wooster into helping him search for a lost gold mine.
A family fleeing from a scandal joins the wagon train heading west.
Flint is ordered by legendary frontiersman Jim Bridger to take the train into hostile Ute territory to rescue a trapped Cavalry garrison.
When Flint goes to visit old galpal Eleanor Culhane her supposedly dead outlaw husband suddenly returns.
Two men offer the use of their wagon to a family going to California to plant a vineyard but their motives aren't exactly Simon Pure.
This flashback episode details the death of wagonmaster Chris Hale's wife, Janet, in a Native American massacre while he was away guiding a wagon train.
Flint takes a deaf girl, her sister, and two soldiers who survived a Native American attack to Fort Anderson but one of the soldiers seems intent on making the trip as unpleasant as possible.
When Charlie Wooster's cooking goes from awful to good grief, Hale demotes him and makes his Chinese assistant the train's chief cook.
Two men are determined to get a hold of the land occupied by a group of Mexican settlers in California at any cost.
A Wild West Show star demands to be hired as chief scout and if Hale doesn't give in he'll lose a much needed government contract.
Nurse Kitty Allbright is concerned about the poor sanitation habits of her fellow wagon train passengers.
Greedy Maud Frazer leads an all female wagon train on a search for gold in hostile Native American territory.
Female bounty hunter Selena Hartnell's quarry is a well-liked pacifist traveling on the wagon train.
Saloon singer Clementine Jones joins the wagon train after she's asked to leave a town by its better sort of folks.
Hale finds Jenna Douglas stumbling along the trail and brings her to the wagon train. He's unaware that Jenna is a fugitive from a mental institution.
Flint doesn't trust his foster brother who's recently been elected mayor of a boom town. He thinks he might be part of a swindle plot.
Hale suspects that two orphaned brothers are the culprits in a series of thefts on the wagon train.
A British nobleman, escorting a party west, ignores Flint's warning that he's headed into dangerous territory.
Crafty and flirtatious Lizabeth Ann Calhoun drives a wedge between Bill Hawks and Duke Shannon by alternately flirting with both men.
Believed to be mixed up in a horse theft, Flint is whipped and banished from the wagon train. But in reality it's all a ruse so that he can help the Army get the goods on an outlaw gang.
Hale wants a matriarch to let her pampered family members develop their own strengths rather than constantly draw from hers.
In this comic episode, Charlie Wooster makes a pet of a buffalo he names Clyde just as the wagon train is facing a meat shortage. Will Clyde be their next meal?
Flint thinks that a legendary lawman, who's arrived to rid a town of outlaws, is actually an impostor.
Orphaned Dick Pederson resents others on the train who have families especially cute and perky Janey Cutler.
Duke's limited experience shows when he runs into trouble leading newcomers across the desert to join the wagon train.
In order to expose a con man who's posing as a preacher, Duke invests in one of his schemes.
Flint gets a supposed Doctor of Musicology to help restore the speech of a young boy paralyzed with fear after the murder of his father.
Cowboy Lonnie Fallen follows the wagon train because he's smitten with pretty passenger Kathy Jennings but her father threatens to kill him if he persists.
Jeff Hartfield plans to run away from the wagon train to save his father who's awaiting execution in prison.
Hanging judge Daniel Clay joins the wagon train only to have other passengers form an immediate dislike of him.
Hale is accidentally wounded in an ambush by a cavalry patrol looking for deserters.
Duke Shannon forges a bond with a Native American after breaking his ankle while escorting a group through rugged mountain country.
A scavenger tries to detour the train into the path of a hidden cannon.
Baylor Crofoot consistently turns the other cheek when dealing with a bully. Is it pacifist principles or cowardice?
An exiled Native American medicine man forms an alliance with a former Boston politician who's headed west.
Flint, guiding a small group, is warned by a friendly Native American chief that an evil spirit resides in a nearby swamp.
The son of a wealthy landowner threatens to destroy the train unless a young bride who spurned him leaves her husband and returns with him.
Hale journeys to Wyoming where his older brother is being paroled from prison into his custody.
A boy's obvious dislike for his stepfather brings on a growing feeling amongst the wagon train passengers that the man is an unfit parent.
A fleeing outlaw who approaches the wagon train happens to be an old enemy of Bill Hawks.
A suave Frenchman begins bilking the female passengers out of their savings.
Flint thirsts for revenge when he discovers that the man who killed the girl he once loved is still alive.
Duke Shannon assumes the identity of a gambler whom someone is out to kill.
A Native American lawyer helps his fellow tribesmen in court to keep whites from forcing them off their lands.
Duke leaves the wagon train to work as an administrator for an agent on a Native American reservation.
It could be the end of the trail for wagonmaster Chris Hale when he falls for an attractive widow after the train arrives at Sacramento, it's final destination.
A couple incites the other passengers to rebel against Hale's authority after the train comes upon another wagon train party that was slaughtered by renegades.
Caroline Casteel was abducted in a Native American raid years before but now her husband receives word that she's still alive. Held captive by Indians for ten years, Caroline is freed and returns to claim a husband and son. Only wagonmaster Hale is sympathetic as others openly resent the "Indian." She's also suspected of not being the lost wife of her claimed husband, and for good reason.
Charlie Wooster becomes smitten with a fortune teller who is traveling with the wagon train.
Wealthy Martin Gatsby, who's in a hurry to get to California, demands that Hale leave behind a poor family who are causing delays.
Gambler John Augustus wins a Chinese girl in a poker game.
The train is in desperate need of water but hard as nails Mavis Grant demands a high price in return for letting the train use her well.
Bill Hawks, wounded and captured by Native Americans, is smitten with an attractive Native American princess.
A dying Army major accuses his commanding officer of murder by sending him to a certain death in a battle against Native Americans.
It's Abie's Irish Rose on the plains when an Irish boy falls for a Jewish girl despite the objections of their families.
Native Americans kidnap a woman from the train and leave behind a Native American boy suffering from leprosy. They will return the woman if the whites can heal the boy.
Florence Hastings has been avoiding Kurt Davos like the plague. The reason: she's deathly afraid of his bulldog.
A man is shocked to find his daughter running a saloon in a mining town. He had thought that she'd settled down and gotten married.
A marshal who was once an outlaw tries to steer a young gun in the right direction.
A temperance crusader joins the wagon train and ends up falling for a winemaker.
The wagon train comes upon a man and his group of orphan boys who are residing in an abandoned ghost town.
While crossing the plains of Nebraska, the wagon train comes upon the overturned wagon of former sea captain Abel Weatherly.
Hale must make a command decision as to whether or not to amputate an injured boy's mangled arm.
Duke Shannon helps a Native American soldier whose comrades despise him for his ancestry.
Disinherited widow Naomi Kaylor will try anything to get her hands on the estate her late husband left to her step-daughter.
A former Confederate soldier traveling on the train develops a strong dislike for a fellow Southerner when he learns that the man didn't serve under the Stars and Bars during the Civil War.
Duke Shannon recognizes a condemned woman on her way to the gallows as his former childhood sweetheart.
A woman outlaw sends her two no talent assclown sons to abduct wagonmaster Hale in order to force him to reveal the location of a gold shipment on the wagon train. But the two assclowns abduct cook Charlie Wooster by mistake.
Sara Proctor is accused of mutilating dolls belonging to the wagon train's children.
During a stopover, Duke Shannon runs afoul of a town boss and his hired gun.
An elderly couple dies of typhoid fever causing panic to break out in the wagon train.
Charlie Wooster vows to find parents for four orphan brothers whose parents were killed in a Native American raid.
A frontier physician and his family are run off their land by an angry mob who believe their daughter is a witch.
Outlaw Tom Tuesday, going blind from a gunshot wound, kidnaps Duke Shannon and forces Duke to guide him across Wyoming territory to a rendezvous.
A Scotsman persuades a young farmer to marry his daughter sight unseen.
Duke Shannon and four others (three of them women) are besieged by Native Americans in a wilderness shack.
Two young passengers decide to leave the wagon train and elope due to parental opposition to their romance.
Duke Shannon and Charlie Wooster enter dangerous territory looking for an old friend who's now a minister trying to preach the Gospel to Native Americans.
Young David Garner is determined to steal a strongbox full of cash that's been entrusted to wagonmaster Hale.
It's shades of Bad Day at Black Rock when Bill Hawks arrives in a town to visit an old friend only to find no trace of him anywhere.
An invalid cattle rancher is determined to prevent his daughter from marrying a sheepman.
Duke Shannon returns home and discovers that the small ranch he and another man own has become an enormous ranching empire.
Barnaby West is a 13 year old boy who has come west to find his father. He later decides to stay with the wagon train when his father's new family wants nothing to do with him.
Molly Kincaid seeks her revenge upon the man whose cowardice resulted in her being taken prisoner by hostile Native Americans.
An Army colonel orders the wife of a subordinate officer to leave the fort with the wagon train.
Hale guides hard as nails railroad tycoon Gus Morgan through the mountains to try to find a passable route for Morgan's railroad.
Duke Shannon and Charlie Wooster are being held prisoner by an exiled Chinese and forced to work as slave labor. Cooper Smith arrives on the scene to rescue them and might be successful due to his resemblance to the princess' late husband.
Robert Harrison Clarke, a British journalist, decides that traveling with the wagon train would be a good place for him to learn about the wild west but his carelessness and naivete lead to a showdown with a dangerous Native American chief.
Myra Marshall joins the wagon train in order to escape her unhappy marriage.
Outlaws Sam Spicer and Reno Sutton take Barnaby West hostage after robbing a bank.
When New York street thug Sam Pulaski and his sister join the wagon train, Coop recognizes him as the leader of a gang that once robbed him and left him for dead.
Outlaw Eli Bancroft and his no-talent assclown sons rob Coop's party and leave them stranded in the wilderness.
Kitty Pryor is engaged to Victor Harpe but discovers that he's already married to another woman. Harpe is then found murdered and Kitty is convicted of the crime and sentenced to hang. Her only hope of avoiding the hangman is an alcoholic former attorney who's traveling with the train and wants to re-open the matter.
Singer Sandra Cummings objects to her daughter's romance with Cooper Smith because she views him as the love 'em and leave 'em type.
Ma Bleeker and her gang join the wagon train disguised as farmers in order to gain entry into Fort Bridger and steal a deposit of gold being stored there.
Prospector John Cain is so glad that the wagon train saved him from death by exposure in the desert that he offers to sell his shares in a gold mine to travelers. Then he changes his mind.
Former convict Cassie Vance is the leading suspect in the theft of the savings of another passenger whose wife Cassie had been nursing.
Fenton Canaby is no Bart Maverick. He's a wagonmaster who deserted his train and left his passengers to die of thirst in the desert. In an attack of conscience, Canaby turns himself into Hale who tries to keep his identity secret in order to avert a lynching.
Juli Holland falls in love with wagon driver Michael Malone but he has some secrets in his past.
Respected sheriff Frank Lewis is revealed to be Jed Whitmore, a wanted outlaw.
Pregnant Geneva Balfour starts a chain reaction which leads to a move to oust wagonmaster Chris Hale.
Wagonmaster Chris Hale gets engaged to freight line owner Kate Crawley but their wedding plans are put on hold by the unexpected arrival of a Native American war party.
Grover Allen murders his tyrannical employer and flees the scene with his daughter-in-law and grandson. They join up with the wagon train but so does a detective.
Duke Shannon is held for questioning by the Army as to why he returned alone after leading a party of six into the badlands.
Duke Shannon vies with three other men for the hand of attractive young widow Melanie Craig but she has her eye on a fifth man who's an avowed woman hater.
Scheming Pearlie Garnet gets herself kicked off the wagon train for theft but later ends up the richest (and most despised) woman in a western town.
When the wagon train stops to rest at a town called Bedrock, a series of murders occur. Is the culprit someone on the train or a townsperson?
Lt. Duncan McIvor is puzzled when his commanding officer orders him to halt his investigation into recent thefts of military property.
Harry Diel is saved from a lynch mob by Ben Engel, a man he once tried to rob.
Barnaby West runs away after Bill Hawks gives him a spanking for getting out of line too much. Hawks is so upset by this turn of events that he begins making errors in judgment regarding the wagon train.
Coop travels to a town where a mysterious band of outlaws has turned killing Comanches into a lucrative business.
Duke Shannon gets framed for murder when he tries to help a widow of a friend who's being forced to work for a ruthless saloon owner.
Gambler Euchre Jones is reunited with his former protege, Link Cheney, on the wagon train but their reunion isn't one of good cheer.
Hale gives washed up scout Zebedee Titus a job with the wagon train out of respect for his former glory but Titus' mistakes lead to Coop being captured by Native Americans.
The end of the trail is marked by tempers flaring about the crew, a young couple deciding to marry inspite of their parents' disapproval, an old man fighting death, and Charlie Wooster entering the ladies stew cooking contest.
A former lawman tangles with an old enemy on his wedding day.
Coop and Barnaby West go on a buffalo hunt with a group of hide hunters.
Outlaw John Gillman is stuck caring for an orphan girl.
Coop and Barnaby escort a young girl to a wide open tent city of gambling and honky tonks where she thinks there's a job as a singer waiting for her.
Bostonian Barbara Lindquist is the only survivor of a bandit attack on a stagecoach.
Brian Conlin forms an almost immediate distrust of wagonmaster Hale when he and his party stumble into camp.
Coop becomes romantically involved with a half-breed girl he found wandering in the wilderness.
Hale has no room in his train for Ben Campbell, an ex-convict whose life has been threatened by a former co-hort in crime.
Nancy Styles is determined to get to Denver is spite of Hale's edict that the train will bypass the city.
Richard Bloodgood, an old friend of Coop's whose now blind, joins the wagon train with one purpose--to kill his old pal.
The wagon train is faced with all kinds of troubles in this one. Coop is wounded, Bill Hawks is seriously ill, and Native Americans are on the warpath.
A little girl is heard crying in the night but she vanishes and Charlie Wooster is the only one who got a good glimpse of her.
Charlie Wooster and Barnaby West try to help an inventor launch the first "flying machine."
Coop gets himself captured by an outlaw band whose members include two females.
Hale's former sweetheart joins the wagon train and immediately gets into an argument with a gambler.
Wanda Snow has a premonition that Coop's life is in danger.
Charlie Wooster and Coop ride into a town that appears deserted and that everyone packed up and departed in a hurry.
Native Americans are in awe of Jamison Hershey's huge Clydesdale horse named Herman.
Pregnant Bonnie Brooke desperately needs money for her medical care.
Tightwad spinster Mary Lee McIntosh considers the fee for joining the wagon train to be way too high so she plans on following the train at a distance in her lone wagon.
A female tugboat skipper receives a surprise when the wagon train brings her two visitors--her sailor son and his new bride.
Coop is recruited to pose as the husband of his old galpal's twin sister.
Barnaby kills a masked bandit and is guilt-stricken when it's discovered that the bandit was approximately his own age.
Bill Hawks refuses to turn a Native American girl over to Chief Crazy Bear who wants revenge on her for the death of his son.
Coop tells Charlie Wooster the story of the Earp brothers and a lady who died in the wreck of a stagecoach carrying a shipment of silver.
In this flashback episode, Charlie Wooster recalls his younger days working at a frontier trading outpost for a man named Jarbo Pierce.