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After a marshal and deputy are wounded and killed, Gil and Rowdy volunteer to finish the delivery of the prison wagon with seven dangerous prisoners to Ft Craig for trial, while the outlaw husband of one prisoner is in pursuit to free her.

Incident of the Tumbleweed

Rowdy's wartime friend, they spent time in a POW camp, is getting married.  The bride's stepbrother, a murderer sixteen times over, has returned to claim his share of the family fortune.

Incident at Alabaster Plain

A stage load of passengers being chased by the man with the black satchel wrecks.  Favor takes them to his camp.  The man is a hired executioner after someone from the stage or the herd.

Incident with an Executioner

Rowdy tries to help Clovis leave her sheriff husband.

Incident of the Widowed Dove

A fanatical Southern loyalist lures drovers from Favor and Rowdy with tales of founding a new Confederate empire; guest Lon Chaney Jr.

Incident On the Edge of Madness

Gil Favor gets permission from rancher Jed Reston to drive his herd over Reston's land. He discovers, however, that Reston has a bigoted attitude toward Indians, particularly a local Comanche named Taslatch who wants to be a farmer and who's paid for a mail-order plow. (Reston's recently had his son, Matt, give Taslatch 15 lashes on a trumped-up rustling charge.) Favor earns Reston's enmity by siding with Taslatch. Tensions soon escalate until violence is set to erupt between the Comanches and local townspeople and Favor must take decisive steps to intervene.

Incident of the Power and the Plow

Brazo, a retired gunfighter, attempts to keep his kid brother from taking up the family business.

Incident at Barker Springs

Four stranded women provide a love interest and a complication for Favor.  A freight hauler with a gunfighter says he's using the only river crossing first.

Incident West of Lano

When Rowdy and two steers are thought to have anthrax, The only medical help is a young lady with two years of nursing school.  Her town doesn't want anything to do with the drovers or the herd.

Incident of the Town in Terror

Brother Bent the newest drover sparks gold fever, when he flashes a huge nuggett.

Incident of the Golden Calf

Banditos inside and outside threaten the herd and the drovers.

Incident of the Coyote Weed

The drive faces a formidable tasks climbing to a plateau known for it's high winds and dust storms.  Favor hires Tom Bryan more for his wagon than the man.  Tom sneaks a woman dressed in a bridal gown into the wagon.  Jefferson Devereaux, a wealthy land owner, comes looking for a man and a woman, his wife, Jenny.  Rowdy was a POW with Tom.  He says Tom sold out.  Jeff and forty men will be back in the morning for Tom and Jenny.

Incident of the Chubasco

Favor and Rowdy are looking for strays.  They enter a deserted mining town.  Matt Lucas is the caretaker.  He says he's the only one there.  Leaving they hear an organ. Mrs. Miller and her daughter, Angie, say Lucas and his son, Waldo, gunned down the stage coach driver, and is holding them hostage.

Incident of the Curious Street

Favor stops Talby from shooting Johnny Camber, who he says is Billy Carter, who killed his daughter.  Clark accuses Carl Myers of being a trail camp thief and a card cheat.  Favor decides to take the herd across the dry plain at the worst time of the year. The men begin to question Favor's judgment.  Eventually all but six of his men quit.

Incident of the Dog Days

Favor and Pete find Jenny Watson outside a burned cabin. Her parents who died of a sickness were burned with the cabin.  Favor invites Jenny to ride along to Silver Junction.  Jenny is in cahoots with three brothers to rob Favor of the drive's payroll.

Incident of the Calico Gun

Rowdy finds two indians dead outside a house.  Amelia Spaulding is inside singing and making candy.

Incident of the Misplaced Indians

Pete is injured, so Favor and Rowdy into a nearby town for a doctor. Because the town lynched a man the day before, the residents along with Favor and Rowdy are held hostage until the Sheriff and the man who led the lynching are also hung.

Incident of Fear in the Streets

Favor's welcome to Paradise Valley is a group of gun toting farmers warning the herd better not do any damage to their property.  Lightning stampedes the remuda and kills farmer Ken Wade.  His wife urges Eli to avenge her husband's death.

Incident Below the Brazos

Jess Hode, a bitter ex-trailboss who the owners thought was too old, demands half of Favor's herd for the only water around.  Jess' son stands by him but soon comes to see through his old man.  Favor tries a couple other water holes but they are dry.

Incident of the Dry Drive

With wolves threatening the herd, Pete is sent to town to get a wolver and traps.  None are available, but he meets his old flame, Nora Sage.  She is later found strangled in her room.  Brad Morgan, Medrina Wilcox's foreman also came to see her.  Medrina has a herd but only one man.  They pool herds.  Brad was a wolver, and directs Favor's men in placing the traps.  Brad toys with the affections of Nora, Medrina and her sister Paula.  Favor lets the sheriff take Pete, but says he needs Morgan.

Incident of the Judas Trap

Favor and Rowdy ride into a settlement of women to find out the source of explosions threatening to stampede the herd.  They're told to go to the camp.  It uses contract prison labor.  The women are the wives and girlfriends of the convicts.  Todd McCauley has one month to go, but Clement won't release him saying he knows where the money he stole is.  Todd arranges a breakout.  The convicts need horses and head for the drive.

Incident in No Man's Land

A badly beaten wild man, Bing, says that Comancheros are planning to take the herd.  Rowdy befriends a woman, once a countess, now being held by the Comancheros.  She offers a mirror for the kindness Rowdy has shown.  Rowdy says he couldn't accept it.  She sneaks it into his saddlebag.  At a trading post the mirror is identified as one taken in a Comanche raid.  Rowdy is thought to be a Comanchero and has to fight his way out. Rowdy goes to the Comanchero camp to get Louisa to back up his story and is caught.  Loouisa tells Rowdy of the Comancheros plans.   Bing was sent by the Comancheros to lead the drive to them.

Incident of a Burst of Evil

Rowdy is tricked into breaking a stallion to pay off a gambling debt by a woman. The horse killed one man and injured others including the daughter of the owner. Rowdy is involved in more than breaking a horse - the break up of a family.

Incident of the Day of the Dead

Pete and Quince find young Davey Colby who says Indians killed his father and grandfather and carried off his mother. He is trying to reach his uncle in Eberle. Favor doubts his story. He hasn't heard of any Indians in the neighborhood. The Kimble County Sheriff tells Favor, there are no Colbys in Eberle and no Indians within 100 miles. Favor tells Pete some kids just find it easier to lie. Davey says he ran away from home to find his father, a bounty hunter. Favor tells Pete to take him home to his mother. After a couple of unsuccessful escape attempts, they ride up to Davey's home. The door is locked. Davey knocks. A woman answers and says she's never seen Davey before in her life. Pete says he understands and turns to leave. He gets a rifle leveled at him. Inside is Bodie whose knee was shot by Davey's father Sam. Bodie, Mooney and Harv are lying in wait for Sam to return home.

Incident of the Roman Candles

A dying woman stumbles into the cattle drive. Her husband, a feared gunslinger turned rancher, soon shows up and accuses the drovers of shooting her. Gil and Rowdy fear that their cattle are coming down with a deadly disease, so they turn the herd towards the Ewan and Reese Dangerfield chemical dipping station, on the widowed rancher's recommendation.

Incident at Dangerfield Dip

When a delusional old man attacks the passing drovers, his daughter-in-law enlists Gil & Rowdy's help with the powerful ex-boxing champ. The Marshal who made the town safe, is now drunk on his own power, enforcing petty rules to keep the tiniest semblance of trouble out of his jurisdiction. Factoring heavily into the situation is that the daughter-in-law is exquisite and widowed.

Incident of the Shambling Man

Rowdy is saved from falling down a well by a woman. Later, the woman's family and friends manage to steal the drovers' horses.

Incident at Jacob's Well

Wishbone, in desperate need of a dentist, finds one in Blanton. Along with Rowdy they both encounter two problems: the doctor is on trial for murder and both of them have been picked to be on the jury. The verdict is the final surprise.

Incident of the 13th Man

While scouting for a river crossing, Favor meets a hostile smokehouse-owner and his wife.

Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse

Desperate for water, Gil's drive is forced into a deadly confrontation between the Paneequa tribe and surveyors, over the Lake of the Haunted Hills. The valley's ghostly winds and geysers are sacred to the tribe, while the U.S. Army survey is headed by a stubborn Indian killer Captain, who orders a Paneequa woman tortured. Gil hopes his drover Tasunka, who left the tribe as a teen, can mediate the dispute with minimal bloodshed, but when Gil finds that the local White settlement Heliotrope is a ghost town due to the dispute, the trail boss tells Rowdy to take over the drive in case he is killed.

Incident of the Haunted Hills

Gil shoots and wounds a puma while while out scouting for the cattle drive. The puma escaped and kills the young son of a local rancher's widow. Gil and the guys go on the hunt for the puma along with a friend of the widow (Cesar Romero) who also happens to want to kill Gil because he's jealous of the attention the widow shows Gil.

Incident of the Stalking Death

Pete has been gone two days. Rowdy has been out looking for him. Pete returns and says there is 80 to 100 Cheyenne ahead. Pete jumps Dagget, a man Favor hired Pete says he's a bounty hunter. Another bounty hunter teams up with Dagget. He shows him an $8000 reward for Nancy Curtis a girl captured by the Indians. Someone posts the reward poster on the chuck wagon. Favor checks on twelve missing steers. He meets Manso, Cheyenne chief whose come to pay for them. Manso leaves and is captured by Dagget. Favor has him released. Favor takes an arrow in the shoulder. He is taken to Manso's camp. There is blonde haired, fair skin Winoka. She shows Favor a locket with ""NC"" on it. Favor is determined to return her to her birth family. Manso says she is Cheyenne now.

Incident of the Valley in Shadow

In the midst of a thunderstorm and despite his men's objections, Mr. Favor hires a man who comes across the camp, blamed for bringing bad luck with him, and one bad break follows another.

Incident of the Blue Fire

Claiming to represent President Diaz of Mexico, Villegro and his men want to take one of Gil's men, the son of their biggest enemy, into custody. As they are in Texas and need all hands to drive their herd, Gil is not in favor of doing so.

Incident at Spanish Rock

Professor Lismore and his daughter Mave have come to Texas from Boston to look for rumored Druid stones. Favor tells Jim Lark, who tried to force his intentions on Mave, to draw his pay in the morning. Lark and two other drovers hear the Professor speak figuratively about the value of finding the stones. The three draw their pay. They kidnap the Professor and Mave. They go about trying to force the Professor to disclose the location of the "treasure".

Incident of the Druid Curse

Favor, Rowdy and drover Lou Paris find themselves in the middle of a smallpox epidemic in Red River Station. The town's doctor wants to vaccinate the populous. The barber/dentist relies on acifidity bags, leeches and herb tea. Favor tries unsuccessfully to get vaccine from the army.

Incident at Red River Station

Gil is accused of murder, but is allowed to continue the cattle drive after Rowdy is deputized to guard him. Meanwhile, the real killers, three outlaws, scheme to steal church funds from a priest befriended by Gil and Rowdy.

Incident of the Devil and His Due

The drovers find a painter from back East on their way, whose paintings help the men of a former Army Major map the town in attempt to bust him out of jail. Mr. Favor gets in the way to help justice be served and stop future bloodshed.

Incident of the Wanted Painter

Wishbone buries his brother "alive" to keep Kiowas from killing him for romancing the stony chief's wife. T.J. turns out to be a comical embarrassment: a pot fixer whose customers fight to scalp him for his shoddy tinking, which is his ploy for woman chasing. For years, trail cook Wishy's fellow drovers heard the cook laud his misplaced little brother's prowess as a warrior, politician, you name it. But angering the Kiowa at the moment is deadly serious, because the tribe is divided over signing a treaty. Young braves oppose old Chief Wankawa inking the doc.

Incident of the Tinker's Dam

An embittered mustanger known by Gil Favor in his younger days blocks the pass that the herd needs to use to reach a river ford where they can cross safely. The mustanger is haunted by a fierce stallion who killed his son, once a friend of Favor.

Incident of the Night Horse

An outlaw usurps a dead man's identity and he is heading for the next town along with the drovers. When Rowdy gets in the middle of his business he finds himself in serious trouble and it is up to Mr. Favor to figure out a way of saving him.

Incident of the Sharpshooter

A posse gives up looking for two outlaws, Vance and his partner. They come upon the body of a lawyer ambushed by indians. Vance decides to pose as Jonathan Williams attorney at law.

Incident of the Dust Flower

Horse thieves who have victimized Comanches also strike the drive's ramuda. Gil sends a group headed by Pete and Rowdy out to purchase replacement mounts. They encounter a preacher on his way to officiate a christening at the Lacey ranch, where he says horses are for sale. The drovers find their own stolen horses corralled there. So do the Comanches, who put the ranch under siege.

Incident at Sulphur Creek

It looks like the drovers are moving smoothly until they find a very slow moving wagon on their way, allegedly carrying champagne. As it turns out it was not only champagne and everyone could be in danger.

Incident of the Champagne Bottles

A woman gets off the stage expecting to meet her husband. But she was let off in the middle of nowhere, a good 30 miles from her home. Pete decides to help her get there but when they arrive, she recognizes everyone except her husband.

Incident of the Stargazer

When the son of a gypsy queen is murdered, she insists one of the drovers did it and demands the killer be found and turned over. Gil rebuffs her, prompting the old woman to predict trouble for the drive, which does start to happen.

Incident of the Dancing Death

The owner of a remote trading post and his wife are coerced into backing a rustler's scheme to get the drovers drunk, swipe the herd and sell the beeves to hide skinners.

Incident of the Arana Sacar

While taking a mountain short cut, Wishbone is injured in a fall caused by a bullying ore freighter. He seeks aid in a small mining town, where he becomes attached to a widow, who is the freighter's fiancée.

Incident of the 100 Amulets

Hey Soos goes to town to visit his mother but, while buying supplies to take to her, he is attacked as the town believe his mother is a witch who has cursed the town.

Incident of the Deserter

A steer with the word "MURDER" branded on its side, considered an omen of violent death, is seen shortly after four mysterious riders from the same town join the drive.

Incident of the Murder Steer

When Gil receives a nasty wound that becomes seriously infected, he is unaware of a Swiss jack-of-all-trades that has totally unarmed his cowboys. The Swiss has a plan for some of the cattle.

Incident of the Music Maker

A young girl is so shocked at her father's murder that she can not speak. She is taken captive by two escaped convicts.

Incident of the Silent Web

Gil takes a protective interest in a stranded tenderfoot couple. Rowdy is interested in the wife.

Incident of the Last Chance

Rowdy leaves to buy cattle to replenish the herd. He comes to a town of an eccentric English patriarch living with his beautiful daughter. Rowdy doesn't understand why he seems so afraid to sell the cattle without his foreman's permission.

Incident in the Garden of Eden

Favor and a calvary detachment lead by Sargeant Matson swear if they did not know better would think they were under attack from a military unit.

Incident at Rojo Canyon

Favor gets knocked off his horse and knocked out.  He wakes to Aztec Indian who has traveled 1500 miles to find a princess.

Incident of the Challenge

An ailing Favor asks John Cord to take over the herd.  He heads them to Dragoon Crossing where the Bates boys demanded tribute when he brought his herd through.

Incident at Dragoon Crossing

Jeff Barkley catches a stranger in the camp, a boy of about twelve.  He wings Jeff.  They track the boys footprints.  Seven or eight men tried to steal the ramuda.  Favor finds the boy.  He was traveling with some horsetraders led by Nick Mesa.  Favor takes the boy back to Mesa.  He doesn't want the boy back.  Joey Gardner is looking for his Pa.

Incident of the Night Visitor

Mrs. Bradley pulls a gun on Victor Laurier and wants to know where her husband is.  She knows he isn't dead.  Victor was in charge of a POW camp.  At the end of the war Victor says he sent 27 union soldiers and three guards, one his son east, but they never reached their destination.  Mrs. Bradley got a letter from her husband four years after he was supposed to have died.

Incident of the Slavemaster

Ralph Bartlet asks Favor to return $250 to a stage line he held up and to check on his first love.

Incident on the Road to Yesterday

Wish finds an indian left to die in a cave, and rescues him.

Incident at Superstition Prairie

The Poco Tiempo bank has been.  Rowdy and Quince are suspects and are taken to two nuns to be identified.  They say they are not the men.  Two desperadoes are holding Father Sebastian until the nuns deliver the money to Blainesville.

Incident at Poco Tiempo

Harkness Musgrove's III mother is coming to take him home.  Mushy asks to be a drover.  Favor says yes.  Mom's stage gets held up.  Mom slaps the bandana off one of the highwaymen.  Another stage chases them off.  Vince says they'll have to kill her.

Incident of the Captive

Rowdy chases after a buffalo soldier who has killed another soldier and has taken off on his horse.

Incident of the Buffalo Soldier

Ben Foley resorts to murder to hide the fact the cattle he is selling to Favor are diseased.  Frank Pierce accidentily shot Ben's wife years ago.

Incident of the Broken Word

There's a new drover who has just spent five years in an army hospital and is addicted to morphine.

Incident at the Top of the World

The drive has reached Sedalia but there is a bank scare and no buyers.  Favor must deal with bitter Emma Caldwell to graze the herd.

Incident Near the Promised Land

The drovers celebrate the end of the drive.  Rowdy is mistaken for another man.

Incident of the Big Blowout

Favor returns to Philadelphia to see his two daughters.  Another passenger is Ogala, Chief of the Pawnee.  He is going to be in a wild west show.

Incident of the Fish Out of Water

The men are gathering for the next drive.  A stray horse is tied up.  Favor is arrested for horse stealing.  The sheriff's wife is having an affair, with Cronin who reported the horse stolen.

Incident on the Road Back

Jubal Wade has 1600 head on this drive and demands to be trail boss and says he'll keep Favor's crew if he stays on as ramrod.

Incident of the New Start

Frank Miller is a herd cutter getting on in years with a nineteen year old son.  Quince chases a rustler off, but is arrested himself.

Incident of the Running Iron

Dan Fletcher returns to his Ma and brother,Cal, whose home just burned.  Cal thinks Frank Travis is trying to run them off.  Frank's daughter Flora has had Cal courting her for a year, but she likes Danny.

Incident Near Gloomy River

Ruthann Harper and Richard Goffage are taking 200 head of cattle to Australia.  Ruthann has a questionable past.

Incident of the Boomerang

Paul Evans is confined to a wheelchair.  His wife is preparing to run away with Paul's brother.  Pete gets stuck in the middle.

Incident of his Brother's Keeper

Favor and Rowdy come upon a ballet in the middle of nowhere.  A search for a pass and water leads to villians looking for gold.

Incident in the Middle of Nowhere

Jayhawkers try to charge Favor for water and a toll to cross the river, on indian territory.  Captain Brian Donohoe follows the orders of Judge Brady.  Mary, the judges daughter is married to Brian and doesn't like it.

Incident of the Phantom Bugler

Billy Manson, his mom and sister Laurie are on the way to meet their aunt, who is to take them back east.  Two bounty hunters shadow them, hoping to find Clete their wanted father.

Incident of the Lost Idol

Rowdy is handcuffed to a deputy that says he has to warn Camp Henly.  The deputy is shot and Rowdy is arrested for murder.

Incident of the Running Man

Partners of Thad Clemens are holding Favor's herd until they're paid the $15,000 that Thad swindled them out of.  Baxter Springs Cattleman's Association will not help Favor.

Incident of the Painted Lady

Pete and Rowdy are captured by the Kiowa.  Two other indians want to accompany the herd to Black Pass.

Incident Before Black Pass

Sky Blackstorm sends a message to the River City sheriff with Mushy.  He's coming tomorrow at sun up for his son Danny.

Incident of the Blackstorms

Judge Akins tells Favor he has 750 head of Mrs. North cattle.  Lewis, Mrs. North lawyer says the cattle that Wesley Adams turned over to Favor, were Mrs. North's and were to be delivered to the army.

Incident of the Night on the Town

Sidney Proctor, along with Joe Stapp, are robbing his father's bank as a joke.  The night watchman, Simpson, wakes up.  Joe clunks him.  Sid thinks they're bringing the money back in three days.

Incident of the Wager on Payday

Rowdy and Hey Soos are robbed by Antonio Marcos.  He is leading a revolution against the Texas land grant.  Rowdy meets his Dad, who ran out on him and his Ma.

Rio Salado

The drovers are beating the scrub for strays.  Favor finds wagon remains and twelve graves.

The Sendoff

An overbearing Favor leads to many drovers quitting.  Five replacements stir trouble.

The Long Shakedown

Quince gets a letter.  He needs a couple of days off.  Jim, Pete, Rowdy and Hey Soos go to Hando Seco.  Casey the bartender knocks their drinks out of their hands when he finds out they rode in with Jim.  Jim asks Judge Matt Quince how's his niece Joanna.  She wants help running away.  She's in love with Brad Lyons.  He has a murder warrant on his head.

Judgment at Hondo Seco

Indians stampede the herd.  The sheriff says it's a 100 Cheyenne headed for Mexico.  Pete picks up their trail.  Pete asks Rowdy not to tell Favor right away.  Little Hawk, the Chief, is the father of Pete's dead wife.

The Lost Tribe

Craddock and Clay Forrester plot to steal the herd.  Shelia Brewster is running away from her army fiancee.

The Inside Man

Favor asks sheepherder,Tod Stone, to let the herd pass his flock.  He won't.  They take the herd over the ridge to the next valley.  Tod takes a shortcut and beats them.  Rowdy and Collins scatter the flock.  Tod the herd.  Rowdy fights Tod.  Tod falls on his scaling knife.  Favor tells Rowdy he's taking Tod and his flock to Twin Hat.

The Black Sheep

Favor finds a circus that is lost.  Pascal the owner and clown beats his wife, Jenny, who wants to run away with Dario the other half of her high wire act.

The Prairie Elephant

Gilmore tells Favor there's a panic brewing back east.  He needs to cut ten days off the drive.  Gilmore says don't tell the drovers about the panic.  Tom Gwynn ,a fishbreeder, is sick with fever.  He's taking shad to California to claim a $10,000 prize.

The Little Fishes

A woman wanders into camp needing help. She is an actress who one of the men recognizes later. She worked as a Union spy during the war. Although most of the men hate her, one even more so as he was court-martialed due to her.

The Blue Spy

Favor gets caught between Lord Ashton, hunting the white buffalo and Buffalo Bob Driscoll.  Ashton entrusts Woolsey, his valet, to Favor.

The Gentleman's Gentleman

Mushy tells Wish he sees Santa Claus (Mr. Bateman) in the middle of August, in the middle of Texas.  He's lost.  He keels over.  He, his wife Mag, and their nine year old boy, Danny, are on their way to New York.  Danny won't last till Xmas.

Twenty-Five Santa Clauses

Martha Hastings is running a way station for outlaws.  Rowdy, Pete and Wish are hired as census takers.

The Long Count

Nora Holloway is ambitious for her captain husband to advance.  She resorts to lying.

The Captain's Wife

The drovers discover peddler Mendel J. Sorkin trying to drive a small herd of cattle all by himself. Mendel wants to sell the herd in a nearby town and use the money to return to his native country.

The Peddler

Pete and Rowdy find a whole herd of good looking women heading to Fort Worth to get married.

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