The Worst Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo

A young man stranded in a remote town is looking for a job working with horses. Jim Hardie befriends him along with a cranky softy and he returns the favor by helping Hardie solve the murder of a Wells Fargo agent.

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An old flame of Jim Hardie's, now a famous concert singer, returns to California on a concert tour. The singer's father knows his daughter still carries a torch for Hardie and wants her to decide once and for all whether she'll be a chanteuse or a rancher's wife. Meanwhile her maid plots to steal her employer's fabulous collection of jewelry.

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A former governor of a Mexican province flees to San Francisco with his family's money to buy guns for the revolutionaries. A gang of former Mexican soldiers operating with stolen papers plan to steal the money with the unwitting assistance of Wells-Fargo.

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Jim Hardie is summoned to Silver Lode when a dog insured with Wells Fargo for $20,000 is lost. Actress Pearl Harvey won't perform without him as she claims he is part of her act. Hardie finds the dog but learns the dog didn't escape.

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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.

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Jim Hardie is given information about a future robbery by a saloon woman wanting revenge. However, the Wells Fargo station to be held up is in disarray and being straightened out by another employee who doesn't see eye to eye with Jim.

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Captain Rawlings, of the U.S. Calvary, asks Jim Hardie sent by Wells Fargo to find out if a woman operating a gambling casino and ranch, Leah Harper, is shipping illegal guns to the Cheyenne Indians via Wells Fargo as farm tools.

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Hardie investigates a stagecoach hold-up and discovers only a single letter was stolen. He learns that the letter was sent from a woman who fled an arranged marriage with a brutal land baron to an itinerant painter. The two men race to find the woman first - the painter to marry her and the land baron to disfigure his ex-fiancée.

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Hardie is ordered by Wells Fargo to escort General Sheridan who hates Indians by stagecoach to Fort Laramie for a meeting with the Sioux tribe to create peace in the area. Attacking outlaws may ensure that the powwow never comes to pass.

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Jim Hardie with help picks up the Apache renegade Joe Black wanted by Wells Fargo. However, when his brother Akana sees him captured, the Apaches capture the daughter of the local Wells Fargo agent hoping to make a trade.

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When a train carrying a Wells Fargo express car is robbed, Hardie is assigned to recover the stolen money. His efforts are handicapped by a new trigger-happy detective he is training who disapproves of Jim's methods as being too soft.

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Rather than spend Christmas with friends as he planned, Hardie is sent to track gunrunners who are transporting weapons illegally across the Mexican border at Laredo to gangs who say they are insurrectionists.

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During an attempted hold-up, Hardie guns down a man who the outlaw leader claims was not a member of their gang. Hardie learns the man was an ex-convict who had gone straight after being released from prison and investigates him.

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Jim Hardie is sent to investigate the theft of a shipment of saloon equipment to Clay Allison, gunfighter, who has a hot temper. Hardie suspects that his competitor, Taggert, stole the shipment and the sheriff might be working for Taggert.

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Jim Hardie is summoned by old friend Kitty Wells who married the son of Wells Fargo agent Henry Thorpe. The son Andy, thinks Kitty is having an affair, because of their poverty, so he committed a robbery and escaped jail.

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A veteran Wells Fargo stationmaster, about to retire, never gets the chance when two thieves stab him in the back and ransack the safe. Hardie suspects the killer is a part-time employee who disappeared after the robbery; Caleb Timmons and his sons want to find the man, too, since he ran off with Caleb's wife.

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An ex-convict burning with the desire to avenge himself upon a judge who he insists falsely convicted him takes over a way-station and hijacks the stagecoach that Jim Hardie and an assortment of passengers are traveling in.

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While transporting Dan Lingle to stand trial for robbery and murder, Hardie's stagecoach is attacked by the outlaw's gang. Among the passengers on the coach are Lingle's estranged wife and son and the outlaw determines to stand with them.

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At the annual auction of Wells Fargo's unclaimed luggage a man and a woman Hardie is following bid vigorously on a battered suitcase. Hardie wins the auction. He is pistol whipped and the suitcase is stolen which may contain stolen money.

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A Wells Fargo ship captain is charged with delivering jade worth $20,000 in the Barbary Coast. Instead the jade is stolen and he is charged with the guard's murder. It is up to Hardie to prove his old friend is innocent and find the jade.

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Jim investigates the murder of a Wells Fargo express agent. His only lead is a young wounded outlaw. With the help of the local sheriff, Jim pretends to be Jesse James and tricks the youthful criminal into taking him to the gang's hideout.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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