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The Best Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3

Every episode of Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 1 - The Gambler
    8.0/10(71 votes)

    #1 - The Gambler

    S3:E1

    When a stage breaks down, a passenger who is returning home after three years in prison for a crime he said he didn't commit, becomes upset with his treatment. Hardie decides to take a gamble on him with a loan to solve a dispute.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 2 - The Manuscript
    7.5/10(66 votes)

    #2 - The Manuscript

    S3:E2

    Bob Dawson has been paroled to Jim Hardie and is living at Brisbane, Nebraska where he regales the people with stories he is writing about them. Worried about his stories someone hires Nedy West to kill him and steal his manuscript.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 3 - White Indian
    7.7/10(77 votes)

    #3 - White Indian

    S3:E3

    While Jim Hardie is in a town a Choctaw boy shows up with a note from Wells Fargo talking about a boy being ship to his parents from his grandmother. Hardie has to determine if the boy is the boy in the note and where his parents are.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 4 - The Golden Owl
    7.6/10(73 votes)

    #4 - The Golden Owl

    S3:E4

    While attempting to deliver a golden owl to its wealthy purchaser, Hardy is attacked and the owl is replaced by one of lead by someone while a Chinese religious society claims the owl was stolen from their temple in China.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 5 - Faster Gun
    7.9/10(64 votes)

    #5 - Faster Gun

    S3:E5

    After being gunned down by Johnny Reno, Jim Hardie is promoted to District Superintendent but finds he doesn't like office work. He decides to join his replacement to go after Reno. It appears he has an inside source at the El Paso office.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 6 - Butch Cassidy
    8.3/10(96 votes)

    #6 - Butch Cassidy

    S3:E6

    When Butch Cassidy is released from prison, Jim Hardie, who sent him to prison, is tasked with asking him to work for Wells Fargo. While on a train, Butch meets an outlaw friend, Idaho, who with others are planning to rob the train.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writers:Mary M. Beauchamp, D.D. Beauchamp

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  7. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 7 - End of the Trail
    7.5/10(68 votes)

    #7 - End of the Trail

    S3:E7

    So that a stagecoach road through the Dakota Black Hills can be completed, Hardie arrives to negotiate with the Pawnees who have killed a crew's hunter consigning the crew to meager rations and who continually harass the crew.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 8 - A Matter of Honor
    7.9/10(63 votes)

    #8 - A Matter of Honor

    S3:E8

    Hardie arrives in Medicine River to help set up a new office. He is greeted at the office by an employee who is the son of a Cheyenne chief he knew when the boy was young but the locals are unhappy he is to be the driver on the route.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 9 - The Most Dangerous Man Alive
    8.3/10(81 votes)

    #9 - The Most Dangerous Man Alive

    S3:E9

    Jim Hardie's task of catching the Manning Brothers is interrupted when his attempt to help a stranded man backfires. The man, John Leslie Nagel, has a $25,000 bounty on him so he trusts no one including Hardie who has no interest in him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 10 - The Gunfighter
    8.1/10(63 votes)

    #10 - The Gunfighter

    S3:E10

    Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to Comanche, Texas to find the Rucker brothers who are hanging around there. Unknown to Hardie, John Wesley Hardin is there, a cousin to the Rucker brothers and still holding a grudge against Hardie.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 11 - The Deserter
    7.9/10(58 votes)

    #11 - The Deserter

    S3:E11

    Hardie is sent to confer with the Colonel at Fort Chaplin which is closing now that a peace treaty has been signed. Wells Fargo is concerned about a rash of robberies in the area by a gang led by an ex-Army officer who deserted the Army.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 12 - The Killer
    8.1/10(68 votes)

    #12 - The Killer

    S3:E12

    Jim Hardie is accompanying a stagecoach carrying a Senator. He has angered the large ranchers in the area with his plan to turn over untitled land to settlers. Three ranchers have hired a gunman to kill the Senator to protect their land.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 13 - The Counterfeiters
    7.7/10(68 votes)

    #13 - The Counterfeiters

    S3:E13

    Wells Fargo is threaten with bankruptcy if they don't find the source of counterfeit Bills of Exchange used to move money. The one man they have caught with them refuses to talk to Hardie forcing him to find the source of them by himself.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 14 - Cow Town
    8.0/10(64 votes)

    #14 - Cow Town

    S3:E14

    Hardie teams up with railroad investigator, Mike Forbes, to solve a robbery of their joint office in Amity, Kansas. As they solve the robbery a second robbery occurs involving a murder and a stabbing causing issues with some Texas cowboys.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:N.B. Stone Jr.

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  15. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 15 - The Happy Tree
    7.3/10(72 votes)

    #15 - The Happy Tree

    S3:E15

    Jack Kramer soon to be executed asks Hardie to help his son change his evil tendency in exchange for stolen Wells Fargo gold so Hardie takes the son from an orphanage placing him with a family but Kramer's murderous partner follows.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 16 - The Dealer
    7.5/10(60 votes)

    #16 - The Dealer

    S3:E16

    Jim is going to Dodge to look for two men who robbed Wells Fargo in Yuba City. On the way he helps the Peel family with a broken wheel. In Dodge City Peel's gambling addiction has him losing all his money but it helps Jim solve his case.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 17 - Showdown Trail
    8.0/10(76 votes)

    #17 - Showdown Trail

    S3:E17

    Jim Hardie is held up by a family based gang to free a member Jim is cuffed to and transporting to jail. Once the cuffs are cut Jim is able to escape but his prisoner wants revenge against Hardie nor will Hardie leave without his prisoner.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 18 - Luke Frazer
    8.0/10(52 votes)

    #18 - Luke Frazer

    S3:E18

    Jim pursues Luke Frazer for murder right after he guns Bud Scanlon down. Hardie apprehends the gunslinger who's worried his impressionable brother Johnny is following in his footsteps. Hardie decides to help prevent that from happening.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writers:Dwight Newton, Thomas T. Flynn

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  19. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 19 - Wild Cargo
    8.1/10(76 votes)

    #19 - Wild Cargo

    S3:E19

    Jim Hardie makes a trip to Oro Gulch to pick up a shipment finding himself riding with a four woman entertainment troupe. The trip seems to be linked to a series of robberies along the way - especially when Jim recognizes one of the women.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 20 - The Cleanup
    7.8/10(61 votes)

    #20 - The Cleanup

    S3:E20

    Jim Hardie is sent to Silver City where a gang is trying to extort money from businesses including Wells Fargo to do business. Hardie arrives to find the local agent murdered and a has been Sheriff who is now a drunk in charge of the town.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 21 - Fort Massacre
    7.6/10(70 votes)

    #21 - Fort Massacre

    S3:E21

    Hardie brings an Army payroll into an Army fort under Indian attack. The only commander left, a green Lieutenant, is uncertain of his command and doubted by his men. Jim believes helping him will pay off when his true character comes out.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 22 - The Town That Wouldn't Talk
    7.8/10(65 votes)

    #22 - The Town That Wouldn't Talk

    S3:E22

    Jim arrives in Dakota territory to investigate the death of a company driver. But everyone in town is tight lipped about his death and others currently ill. After seeing a cow buried, Jim has an idea about what is causing people to sicken.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 23 - Lola Montez
    7.9/10(70 votes)

    #23 - Lola Montez

    S3:E23

    Jim Hardie has been sent to catch outlaw Zach Bradley who killed a Wells Fargo employee. The stage they are on is stopped by two Apaches who want the same man for killing a squaw and her son but Hardie refuses which leads to a fight.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 24 - The Branding Iron
    7.9/10(67 votes)

    #24 - The Branding Iron

    S3:E24

    Hardie arrives at his friend Curly Brown's ranch learning Curlie was murdered. His widow struggles on her own and Jim becomes suspicious of the people ready to buy the place. As he solves the mystery he begins to fall in love with Etta.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 25 - The House I Enter
    7.7/10(65 votes)

    #25 - The House I Enter

    S3:E25

    Hardie enters town as the Wells Fargo office is robbed. Tracking the suspects he encounters Doc Forrester who holds a grudge against Jim. They are taken to the Haggerty farm where Leroy is seeking medical aid for his wounded brother Ollie.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Gambler" is the best rated episode of "Tales of Wells Fargo" season 3. It scored 8/10 based on 71 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/8/1958. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Manuscript".