The Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 3

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.9/10(109 votes)

   #1 - The Stagecoach Story

   S3:E19/30/1959

   The men are returning to St. Louis by stagecoach except for Flint - until he becomes the driver to help a friend. They are forced to take a detour to Mexico by other passengers - one of whom denies knowing Flint who is in love with her.

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   7.9/10(124 votes)

   #2 - The Greenhorn Story

   S3:E210/7/1959

   At the beginning of any wagon train trip, the challenges faced by everyone turns a greenhorn into a seasoned veteran, even if those may mean death of those they love or some other loss.

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   7.4/10(108 votes)

   #3 - The C.L. Harding Story

   S3:E310/14/1959

   A reporter has joined the wagon train. When the Major finds out he is a she, he finds his hands full especially when her looks and curiosity jeopardize everyone's safety and their right to vote.

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   7.4/10(99 votes)

   #4 - The Estaban Zamora Story

   S3:E410/21/1959

   Flint find a young man bleeding to death and a knife nearby. He takes the body to sheriff who identifies the man as the youngest Zamora brother. His father is on the train from Spain. He feels duty bound to kill the murderer.

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   8.3/10(368 votes)

   #5 - The Elizabeth McQueeny Story

   S3:E510/28/1959

   Elizabeth McQueeny is traveling with her girls, heading to a finishing school in the West. When her real purpose becomes known, all the females want her gone but her worth to all shows itself before that can happen.

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   7.2/10(98 votes)

   #6 - The Martha Barham Story

   S3:E611/4/1959

   Flint and a long time Sioux Indian friend reunite but trouble is brewing as the Cheyenne are on the warpath and in their way is Fort Hastings, an old flame of his and her new Army Captain fiancé.

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   6.8/10(88 votes)

   #7 - The Cappy Darrin Story

   S3:E711/11/1959

   Old salt Cappy Darrin is on the train with his orphaned grandson Tuck. But Cappy's daughter granted custody of Tuck to his uncle, and as their parting nears Cappy finds he is reluctant to let Tuck go.

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   8.3/10(108 votes)

   #8 - The Felizia Kingdom Story

   S3:E811/18/1959

   Tough as nails Felizia Kingdom controls an enormous amount of land by force, and no one is good enough to inherit the responsibility. When Flint handles her henchmen with ease, she decides he's the man for the job.

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   8.0/10(135 votes)

   #9 - The Jess MacAbee Story

   S3:E911/25/1959

   Flint, scouting ahead of the wagon train, is in search of fresh meat. With prospects none too good he comes upon a hidden paradise, green and lush and offering far more than he expected especially for a single man.

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    7.7/10(107 votes)

    #10 - The Danny Benedict Story

    S3:E1012/2/1959

    He says his name is Tom Smith but a young man Major Adams meets on the trail refuses to join the wagon train and won't say why. When he does find out he meets an old friend and why the boy is so tortured.

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    7.7/10(98 votes)

    #11 - The Vittorio Bottecelli Story

    S3:E1112/16/1959

    The King orders his womanizing nephew to San Francisco. He joins the wagon train but causes the Major problems as the husbands are complaining but he may have lost his heart to someone who understands.

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    8.2/10(111 votes)

    #12 - The St. Nicholas Story

    S3:E1212/23/1959

    Almost Christmas eve, the wagon train deals with a happy time, the perils that go with hostile Indians and a little lost boy who may have already been captured by those same hostiles.

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    7.9/10(98 votes)

    #13 - The Ruth Marshall Story

    S3:E1312/30/1959

    As the wagon train moves through Sioux territory, a man named Marshall asks for help in finding his daughter, Ruth, who apparently was taken by Indians following a raid eleven years ago. The girl would now be 19 years old. Flint McCullough goes in search of the girl, is injured in an ambush by a lone Indian, and is treated by a blue-eyed white woman living with four wolves. The woman communicates only through sign-language and is held in reverence by the local Sioux. Meanwhile the Indian who ambushed Flint and was wounded in the process reports back to his father, Red Cloud. Red Cloud learns that the ""Woman Who Lives with Wolves"" is treating a white man and orders Flint to be brought to his camp for possible punishment. The Wolf Woman intervenes and has Flint returned to the wagon train along with a book which bears the name ""Ruth Marshall"" on its flyleaf.

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    7.2/10(93 votes)

    #14 - The Lita Foladaire Story

    S3:E141/6/1960

    Never having met Lita Foladaire, Major Adams learned a lot about her past, the town she grew up in, the people who loved her and most importantly what happened to her surrounded by those same people.

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    7.9/10(100 votes)

    #15 - The Colonel Harris Story

    S3:E151/13/1960

    Flint goes to Fort Young to see the Harris family and Bowman Lewis who were friends from his youth. He finds Mrs. Harris dead and her husband swearing to wipe out all Indians including Lewis who leads the Comanche and his mother, Princess. English

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    7.1/10(98 votes)

    #16 - The Marie Brandt Story

    S3:E161/20/1960

    Trying to give her son a chance, Maidie Brant is found by the wagon train. Needing fresh horses after a cougar attack, she is reluctant to say why she won't go back to town and buy some but would rather pay top dollar for the Major's.

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    7.7/10(100 votes)

    #17 - The Larry Hanify Story

    S3:E171/27/1960

    On his deathbed, Joe asks Flint to look after his 17-year old son Larry Hanify and get him to California. There was one catch. His latest escapade put him in jail awaiting trial for armed robbery.

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    7.2/10(106 votes)

    #18 - The Clayton Tucker Story

    S3:E182/10/1960

    Taking a dangerous route through the desert to join up with the wagon train, a small band of settlers take a turn for the worse when they lose the one man leading them, their scout, and now differ on where they need to go now.

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    8.6/10(103 votes)

    #19 - The Benjamin Burns Story

    S3:E192/17/1960

    One dry water hole is normal but when the wagon train has two, Flint and Ben Burns lead a party to find a legend that only the Indians speak of, Shining Water. Troubles await them but the worst may be a too green city boy.

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    6.7/10(96 votes)

    #20 - The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story

    S3:E202/24/1960

    Laurie and Ricky Bell uproot and go West, leaving their comforts in Baltimore. When she announces she is pregnant, he is less than happy as he feels she has just made their lives more complicated especially where it concerns his needs.

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    8.6/10(121 votes)

    #21 - The Tom Tuckett Story

    S3:E213/2/1960

    Ever since he was young, Tom Tuckett has been sent to good schools and looked after by an unknown benefactor. When he joins the wagon train he feels he's about to find out who that is but it isn't who he imagined.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty

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    8.2/10(103 votes)

    #22 - The Tracy Sadler Story

    S3:E223/9/1960

    David Forest always believed his father to be as he claimed. When Tracy Sadler joins the wagon train his beliefs are altered when he slowly and painfully learns the truth about his past.

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    8.0/10(115 votes)

    #23 - The Alexander Portlass Story

    S3:E233/16/1960

    Kidnapped, Flint is forced to scout and find a lost Aztec treasure. As some of the men were previously thrown off the wagon train, their unfriendliness is certain unless he can help them find the lost treasure of Montezuma.

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    8.6/10(107 votes)

    #24 - The Christine Elliott Story

    S3:E243/23/1960

    Her father on his deathbed, Christine Elliot decides to fulfill his dream of a boys school and joins the wagon train. A good start: the eleven boys he already has. One man is determined to stop her unless he collects his pound of flesh.

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    8.0/10(91 votes)

    #25 - The Joshua Gilliam Story

    S3:E253/30/1960

    Bill and the Major find a man lying hurt, a meal for the buzzards. When he meets an innocent woman on the wagon train who has an inheritance waiting for her, he shows other skills besides being just a schoolteacher and her mother is wary.

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