Season 1
8.2/10208 votesThe Willy Moran Story
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1957
Willy Moran, a drunk, is hired by a wagon as a driver. He is an army buddy of the Major, but is used as a fall guy by a member of the train who wants to rob it. When the battle starts, Willy uses his army skills to turn the battle.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.2/10154 votesThe Jean LeBec Story
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1957
The train cannot get supplies after a member kills the son of the man who owns most of St. Joseph in self-defense. He escapes with the help of Flint but when he learns the train is still being denied supplies he returns to face hanging.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.6/10150 votesThe John Cameron Story
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1957
John Cameron, from Philadelphia, heads west with his wife to start a new life. Her flirtatious ways may get the better of her when three trappers come into camp offering fresh buffalo and thinking she might be more available than she is.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.1/10147 votesThe Les Rand Story
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1957
Les Rand, just released from prison for murder, goes back home to kill the man he held responsible; his father, the doctor. Meanwhile, Flint is there to fetch the doctor to help someone injured. Les vows that no one will stand in his way.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.8/10126 votesThe Nels Stack Story
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1957
A pacifist since the war, Nels Stack stands up to any man prejudiced against another. When his own beliefs are tested in the face of an impending Indian attack against the wagon train, he has to decide who he is going to defend.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.1/10157 votesThe Emily Rossiter Story
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1957
Emily Rossiter had a young daughter to care for. She met and married someone she felt she could trust. When she found out this was misplaced, getting the daughter away from him and into a better life becomes her main goal.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.0/10149 votesThe John Darro Story
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1957
When the train picks up an abandoned drunk on the trail, he exposes John Darro to be the reviled coward John Thurman who abandoned a previous train during a massacre. Darro's young son Tommy is unable to cope with the truth.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.3/10144 votes
7.5/10124 votesThe Zeke Thomas Story
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1957
The wagon train stops in a newly built town to get water they had always been able to get before for free. Wanting money now, and at a steep price, has the Major upset. Sending Flint also uncovers a wife of a passenger thought dead.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.8/10113 votesThe Riley Gratton Story
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1957
Riley Gratton has always drifted from here to there, a smooth tongue getting him whatever he needed. When he tries to do the same with some folks on the Major's wagon train, what comes next may be the least of his worries.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.5/10123 votesThe Clara Beauchamp Story
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1957
When a new officer and troops kill an Indian brave and the post commander's drunken bored wife insults the Chief, Flint is forced to act as a neutral agent between the Army and Indians and save the wagon train.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.8/10138 votesThe Julie Gage Story
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1957
A head strong Julie Gage is determined to ride her wagon to California. Losing her pa to fever, many suitors step up to help but she'll have none of it until one comes down with fever himself and she's the only one who will tend to him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.8/10118 votesThe Cliff Grundy Story
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1957
Mortally wounded in a buffalo stampede, Cliff Grundy's friend Flint stays when the wagon train leaves. Manson says he will help but his reasons for staying become clear as Cliff keeps saying he has a goldmine somewhere and he's recovering.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.6/10108 votesThe Luke O'Malley Story
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1958
Luke O'Malley is running from an outlaw who said he would kill him for turning him into the law. Since he won't believe he didn't do it, he takes his two kids and joins Adams' wagon train disguised as a parsons, who doesn't act like one.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.7/10104 votesThe Jesse Cowan Story
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1958
The Cowans and Beals have been feuding a long time. Bob and Jesse return from the war and find their family dead and the Beals have joined a wagon train. Revenging their family is just the start of what Major Adams must now deal with.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Dwight Newton
7.8/10101 votesThe Gabe Carswell Story
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1958
Gabe Carswell wants his son to join the whites because of what he sees coming for the Indians. When his son refuses he takes him to the wagon train heading for California but the Arapaho are getting set to attack.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.2/10101 votesThe Honorable Don Charlie Story
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/22/1958
Don Charlie is a gambler and womanizer and makes no excuses for it. When he meets a woman who wants to marry him there may be trouble because the Major promised her uncle that she would make it safely to San Francisco.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.8/10131 votes
7.9/10105 votes
8.1/10105 votesThe Bill Tawnee Story
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/1958
Bill Tawnee served his country heroically. When Major Adams recognizes him on the trail and sees he is unable to wake, he asks his wife to join his wagon train even though there is plenty of anti-Indian sentiment afloat.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.7/10104 votesThe Mark Hanford Story
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/26/1958
Jack Hanford built his wealth to give his son. He turns it all down to honor his Cheyenne heritage when his mother dies. To make matters worse in his son's eyes, he had sent for a woman he briefly met to replace her even before she died.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.3/1089 votesThe Bernal Sierra Story
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1958
Revolutionary Bernal Sierra joins the train finding the wife of his dead friend married to Casey Reardon who sold guns to the Mexican revolutionaries. Bernal is suspicious of Casey, his brothers, and Perdita over missing gold.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.5/10109 votes
8.0/10146 votes
7.7/10113 votesThe Sally Potter Story
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1958
Sally Potter hitches a ride on the wagon train but being pretty helps and hurts her. Someone she knew catches up to the train and wants to remind her of who she is and where she came from, possibly ruining what she wants for her future.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.4/10122 votesThe Major Adams Story (1)
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/23/1958
During the Civil War Charlie Wooster joins Bill Hawks under the command of Major Seth Adams. When Adams is seriously wounded saving Hawks's life he must struggle to survive, while dreaming of the girl he left behind.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.6/10115 votes
7.6/1092 votesThe Charles Maury Story
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/7/1958
Disguised as Yank soldiers, a band of confederate marauders blend into the wagon train, planning on robbing everyone. They are at first stopped but a member of the train helps the man in charge when she discovers the truth to his identity.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.1/1080 votesThe Dan Hogan Story
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/14/1958
In a growing town, Seth meets a friend from his distant past. He remembers how they met and the circumstances bringing them west. When his friend's home is threatened, not ever wearing a gun surprisingly helps him rather than the reverse.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.4/10102 votesThe Ruttledge Munroe Story
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/21/1958
Ruttledge Munroe joins the wagon train on the trail. It's noticed right off his odd sense of humor but when he saves the major's life, it is forgotten until he kills someone else and the real reason he joined up is revealed.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.9/10101 votes
8.3/1094 votesThe John Wilbot Story
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/11/1958
Tensions are running high in the train between northerners and southerners traveling west. As trouble escalates one passenger with a noticeable limp, John Wilbot, is accused of being John Wilkes Booth, who many believe is still alive.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.2/1098 votesThe Monty Britton Story
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/18/1958
Low on water, Flint scouts for more. When three water holes are dry or poisoned, Fort Paiute seems their only hope but he has to make it back to the wagon train on foot and the only other man who knows the way is believed to be a deserter.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.1/10123 votesThe Sacramento Story
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 6/25/1958
At the end of a long journey, lives were lost. Some made it with their dreams intact. Flint tries to help two of the passengers with theirs and almost bites off too much. Politics are involved as well as unsolicited trips to the Far East.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
