8.0/10108 votes#1 - Around the Horn
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1958
Planning to sail to Boston, the Major, Hawks and Charlie are instead shanghaied to New Orleans where they meet a Captain who has different ideas on raising his child and running a ship.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1084 votes
#2 - The Juan Ortega Story
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1958
Juan awakens to the sound of three men hanging his beloved father. Joining the wagon train, he comes across one of the three, tortured by Indians. He nurses him back to health but only under the guise of looking for the other two killers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1097 votes
#3 - The Jennifer Churchill Story
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1958
Jennifer Churchill, pampered all her life, runs away from a smothering lifestyle and pending marriage, and joins the wagon train. With bounty hunters on her heels, she finds Flint, a man who she wants but doesn't want her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/10182 votes
#4 - The Tobias Jones Story
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1958
Major Adams allows two stowaways, Tobias Jones and his young friend Midge, to stay with the train. But Tobias is in trouble due to his drinking, and things get worse when he's accused of murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1088 votes
#5 - The Liam Fitzmorgan Story
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1958
Liam Fitzmorgan has come from Ireland on a mission to kill an informer he believes is traveling with the train. However, his mission is complicated when he falls in love with his target's daughter.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1091 votes
#6 - The Doctor Willoughby Story
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1958
Concerned by one of the passengers on the wagon train, a woman doctor tries to help even though she's hampered further by everyone else who shuns her. Meantime an Indian chief needs doctoring and they don't believe in female medicine men.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1088 votes
#7 - The Bije Wilcox Story
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1958
After advertising to look for his brother Charles and offering a $5,000 reward, a member of the wagon train gets a response from someone who walks through an Indian party that's pinning them all down. What he finds is not what he expected.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/10100 votes
#8 - The Millie Davis Story
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1958
Millie Davis reluctantly takes in an orphaned baby girl. Eight years later the girl's grandmother arrives to retrieve her. But Millie doesn't want to give up the child, so she claims that she and Flint are the parents.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/10107 votes
#9 - The Sakae Ito Story
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1958
The major comes upon two Japanese men, attacked by Indians and heading towards California. He learns one of the men plans on committing hara kiri while others on the train have designs on a black box they suspect may contain precious gems.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1090 votes
#10 - The Tent City Story
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1958
When a member of the train is placed in chains after breaking Indian law by killing a buffalo, Major Adams quarrels with Flint who quits and takes a job at nearby Tent City. But White Eagle discovers the dead buffalo and demands justice.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1083 votes
#11 - The Beauty Jamison Story
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1958
Flint, at a grave, sees a man stabbed in the back with a note saying Deliver to Beauty Jamison. As that is the daughter of the man interred he pays a visit and sees a woman trying to continue a legacy with the locals trying to break her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/10149 votes
#12 - The Mary Ellen Thomas Story
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/1958
Mary Ellen is an orphan traveling west to join family, but members of the train reject her due to her surly disposition. Her only friend is Sally Mayhew, another girl traveling west with her family dying of consumption.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1079 votes
#13 - The Dick Richardson Story
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/31/1958
When the wagon horses start to die of a disease, Adams is forced to send two men who are feuding to buy new horses with his emergency money. One of the men's horse returns without him making Adams wonder if he made a mistake.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/10125 votes
#14 - The Kitty Angel Story
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1959
Kitty Angel finds herself not welcome on the wagon train due to her past. When Flint returns to the train toting a sick Indian baby, she has everyone's prejudices to deal with as well as this life threatening illness.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1090 votes
#15 - The Flint McCullough Story
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1959
Flint, in love with a Mormon girl he can't marry, joins the confederate army. When he finds out that he won't be joining any battles and what their real purpose is, it may be too late for him and the girl he loves.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1087 votes
#16 - The Hunter Malloy Story
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1959
Hunter Malloy and partner get jobs as drivers on the wagon train to rob their boss. Striking gold instead while stopping to repair their wagons, the fever is high as some stop to strike it rich and uncover more than just a few nuggets.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1099 votes
#17 - The Ben Courtney Story
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1959
The sheriff of Bitter Springs feels he has lots of reasons to hate. When settlers from the south want to live there, he tries to take a black child he says they are just using for free labour but his reasons go much deeper than that.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/10388 votes
#18 - The Ella Lindstrom Story
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1959
Ella Lindstrom loses her husband on the wagon train ride west from Boston. With her seven children she decides to stay the course against the wishes of Major Adams. It gets more complicated when she thinks she is expecting number eight.
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: Allen H. Miner
- 8.1/1093 votes
#19 - The Last Man
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1959
Scouting for a better pass, Flint finds a mountain man, hungry and half out of his mind. With no memory, his strange behavior may endanger the entire wagon train especially when everyone feels they know who he is.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1097 votes
#20 - The Old Man Charvanaugh Story
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1959
Flint escorts a wagon, leaving the train, to their new home. When they meet an old man with a wagon load of uncured buffalo skins he's trying to sell, they invite him along as he appears friendly enough. But Flint feels he's too friendly.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1090 votes
#21 - The Annie Griffith Story
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1959
Flint, seeking safe passage through the mountains, is shot and losing consciousness is dragged to a cabin. Nursed back to health, his saviour finds the man who shot him was her husband and Flint had to kill him or be killed.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10100 votes
#22 - The Jasper Cato Story
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1959
Wanting a safe escort through Indian country, a stranger rides upon the wagon train. Telling the major his reasons for being there, the truth is soon uncovered and it causes two men to come to change their lifelong habits.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1099 votes
#23 - The Vivian Carter Story
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1959
Getting set to leave the wagon train, Vivian Carter finds out a friend she knows from the train hoped for more than that. Heading to a new life and her first marriage, she's given some options and even at her age has its surprises.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1091 votes
#24 - The Conchita Vasquez Story
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1959
Suspecting a hurt girl he finds on the trail is part of a group of bandits, Flint cautiously helps her but soon learns she is all he suspects until her guardian is killed and Flint becomes her only protection.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/10101 votes
#25 - The Sister Rita Story
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/25/1959
Leaving the safety of their village, a group of nuns set out to help those Indians in need at a mission. Now Flint must try to help them fight some Ute Indians who don't seem to know the nuns are just there to help them.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 2
Every episode of Wagon Train Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 2!
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton...
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Around the Horn" is the best rated episode of "Wagon Train" season 2. It scored 8/10 based on 108 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1958. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Juan Ortega Story".