7.9/10102 votes#1 - The Stagecoach Story
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10115 votes#2 - The Greenhorn Story
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1099 votes#3 - The C.L. Harding Story
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1959
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.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: N/A
7.3/1091 votes#4 - The Estaban Zamora Story
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10359 votes#5 - The Elizabeth McQueeny Story
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1089 votes#6 - The Martha Barham Story
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1080 votes#7 - The Cappy Darrin Story
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10100 votes#8 - The Felizia Kingdom Story
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10126 votes#9 - The Jess MacAbee Story
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1094 votes#10 - The Danny Benedict Story
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1959
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.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: N/A
7.7/1086 votes#11 - The Vittorio Bottecelli Story
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10102 votes#12 - The St. Nicholas Story
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/23/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1089 votes#13 - The Ruth Marshall Story
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/30/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1087 votes#14 - The Lita Foladaire Story
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1093 votes#15 - The Colonel Harris Story
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1960
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
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1092 votes#16 - The Marie Brandt Story
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1094 votes#17 - The Larry Hanify Story
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10100 votes#18 - The Clayton Tucker Story
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/10/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/1096 votes#19 - The Benjamin Burns Story
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1090 votes#20 - The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.8/10109 votes#21 - The Tom Tuckett Story
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1960
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1094 votes#22 - The Tracy Sadler Story
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10107 votes#23 - The Alexander Portlass Story
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/16/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.7/10101 votes#24 - The Christine Elliott Story
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1087 votes#25 - The Joshua Gilliam Story
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 3
Every episode of Wagon Train Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 3!
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 3 Ratings Summary
"The Stagecoach Story" is the best rated episode of "Wagon Train" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 102 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/30/1959. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Greenhorn Story".