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The Best Episodes of Wild West Chronicles

Every episode of Wild West Chronicles ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Wild West Chronicles!

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Once a feared lawman, the legendary Bat Masterson trades his sheriff's badge for a pen and becomes a newspaper reporter. He now travels the frontier to chronicle the amazing true stories of the Wild West

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    Wild West Chronicles Season 4 Episode 1 - Bat Masterson Leaves the West
    9.6/10(17 votes)

    S4:E1

    After leaving Dodge City, Bat Masterson takes a job as manager of Denver's Palace Theatre. There he falls in love with Emma Walter, a juggling virtuoso known as the Queen of Clubs, and begins to question his life as a gunslinger.

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  2. Wild West Chronicles Season 4 Episode 10 - Willie Kennard Makes His Mark in History
    9.5/10(15 votes)

    S4:E10

    Under siege by gunslingers, the gold mining town of Yankee Hill runs a newspaper ad to find a new marshal. Former slave and Union soldier Willie Kennard answers the ad, but he faces prejudice and doubt as he tries to restore law and order.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Wild West Chronicles Season 4 Episode 3 - Bronco Bills Treasure
    9.4/10(12 votes)

    S4:E3

    When Bronco Bill and his gang are robbing trains at will, two veteran lawmen join forces to stop the violent outlaws. Years later, gunfighter-turned-reporter Bat Masterson hears the story from the last surviving member of the gang.

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  4. Wild West Chronicles Season 4 Episode 7 - Elijah Briant and the Wild Bunch
    9.4/10(13 votes)

    S4:E7

    When a mild-mannered druggist and former teacher becomes sheriff, he attempts to enforce the law without carrying a weapon. But he soon faces his greatest challenge when the last surviving members of the Wild Bunch descend on his town.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Wild West Chronicles Season 3 Episode 1 - Bat Masterson to the Rescue
    9.3/10(22 votes)

    S3:E1

    In 1880, Bat Masterson's old friend, Ben Thompson, asks him to help save his brother from the gallows. Ben's brother, Billy, has evidently shot off a man's thumb in a gunfight and is wounded himself. While Billy claims self-defense, an overzealous sheriff is eager to see him hang. Though he is no longer a lawman, and he lacks any kind of legal authority, Bat agrees to travel to Nebraska to talk to the sheriff. When his common-sense appeal fails to impress the sheriff, Bat hatches an elaborate plan to help Billy escape, which only succeeds when Buffalo Bill shows up to lend a hand. Years later, when Bat's editor balks at printing the tale, Bat tries to explain the difficulties of dispensing justice in the Old West.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Wild West Chronicles Season 4 Episode 2 - Bass Reeves A Fathers Justice
    9.3/10(16 votes)

    S4:E2

    After a man murders his wife in a jealous rage and goes on the run, local lawmen are stunned when legendary Marshal Bass Reeves accepts responsibility for bringing the killer to justice...because the murderer is Reeves' own son, Bennie.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Wild West Chronicles Season 4 Episode 11 - John Wesley Hardin Killer on the Texas Frontier
    9.3/10(9 votes)

    S4:E11

    When outlaw John Wesley Hardin murders a sheriff, a hard-charging Texas Ranger joins forces with a cool-headed police detective to hunt down the killer. The unlikely duo must learn how to work together to end Hardin's reign of terror.

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  8. Wild West Chronicles Season 4 Episode 12 - The Battle of Stone Corral
    9.3/10(11 votes)

    S4:E12

    When bandits rob a train and gun down a pursuing marshal, they spark one of the largest manhunts in California history. After taking shelter behind the crumbling walls of Stone Corral, they make their final stand against a hail of gunfire.

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  9. Wild West Chronicles Season 2 Episode 7 - Doc Susie Goes Underground
    9.2/10(22 votes)

    S2:E7

    After the suspicious death of a tunnel worker, and unconvincing answers from the project's lead engineer, Doc Susie goes underground to find out what happened. Instead, she finds her own life in peril when she's trapped by a cave-in.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Wild West Chronicles Season 3 Episode 13 - The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight
    9.2/10(18 votes)

    S3:E13

    After two Mexican vaqueros cross the border in search of their stolen cattle, they are gunned down by the rustlers. When El Paso's newly appointed marshal arrests local ranch hands for the murders, he sparks one of the West's most infamous gunfights.

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  11. Wild West Chronicles Season 4 Episode 5 - Wong Fee Lee Stakes His Claim
    9.2/10(14 votes)

    S4:E5

    Chinese immigrant Wong Fee Lee joins a convoy of miners headed to Deadwood, where he hopes to strike gold and start a business. But when they are attacked by bandits, Wong must find the strength to lead his fellow prospectors in battle.

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  12. Wild West Chronicles Season 4 Episode 9 - Law Comes to No Mans Land
    9.2/10(10 votes)

    S4:E9

    Marshal Chris Madsen helps newly appointed judge John Buford bring law and order to No Man's Land in Oklahoma's Panhandle. After escorting a wagon train of prisoners to Beaver City, they set up their first courthouse inside a rowdy saloon.

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  13. Wild West Chronicles Season 2 Episode 3 - Pinkerton Detectives Track a Killer
    9.1/10(25 votes)

    S2:E3

    Two Pinkerton detectives join forces to track a notorious bank robber. During a shootout, the Missouri Kid kills seasoned detective Charles Schumacher, leaving young George Dougherty to finish the job and avenge his colleague's death.

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  14. Wild West Chronicles Season 2 Episode 5 - The Masterson Brothers Part 1
    9.1/10(22 votes)

    S2:E5

    After Marshal Ed Masterson is shot while trying to break up a barroom brawl, he hastily bans all firearms in Dodge City. Ed's swift proclamation is met with disdain, even from his own brothers, and places an even larger target on his back.

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  15. Wild West Chronicles Season 2 Episode 6 - The Masterson Brothers Part 2
    9.1/10(22 votes)

    S2:E6

    Marshal Ed Masterson's youngest brother, James, decides to follow in his footsteps and become a lawman. But when James' life is threatened, middle brother Bat Masterson races back from Arizona to protect his kin.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Wild West Chronicles Season 3 Episode 4 - Burton Mossman Crosses the Line
    9.1/10(24 votes)

    S3:E4

    After failing to capture the ruthless murderer Augustine Chacon on U.S. soil, Arizona Ranger Burton Mossman relinquishes his badge to cross the border. In Mexico, he goes undercover as a horse thief to join Chacon's gang and spring his trap.

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  17. Wild West Chronicles Season 4 Episode 6 - Black Barts Revenge
    9.1/10(10 votes)

    S4:E6

    Wells Fargo detective James Hume hires private investigator Harry Morse to join the hunt for Black Bart, the infamous stagecoach bandit known as the Poet Highwayman due to the tantalizing poems he leaves at the scenes of his crimes.

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  18. Wild West Chronicles Season 2 Episode 4 - The Legend of Nat Love
    9.0/10(23 votes)

    S2:E4

    When Black cowboy Nat Love hears word that a Deadwood business owner is putting up $200 for a Fourth of July cowboy competition, he immediately signs up to prove his mettle against the best ropers, riders, and shooters around.

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  19. Wild West Chronicles Season 2 Episode 10 - Jim Roberts Cleans Up Jerome
    9.0/10(18 votes)

    S2:E10

    In his first week on the job as the new constable of Jerome, Arizona, Jim Roberts gets to work arresting the town's troublemakers and teaching his timid deputy how to be a true lawman as they track down a stone-cold killer and his gang.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Wild West Chronicles Season 4 Episode 8 - El Bandito Vasquez
    9.0/10(10 votes)

    S4:E8

    When a bandito terrorizes early Los Angeles County, an eager reporter shadows the sheriff who is hunting the dangerous outlaw. Will the reporter stay objective or take matters into his own hands when he comes face to face with the killer?

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Wild West Chronicles Season 3 Episode 5 - The Gold Rush Detectives
    8.9/10(21 votes)

    S3:E5

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    Director:Robert Kirbyson
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Wild West Chronicles Season 2 Episode 11 - Battle Beneath the Mountain
    8.8/10(19 votes)

    S2:E11

    For months, a thin wall of rock is all that keeps the peace between two rival silver mining companies 300 feet below the Idaho mountains. Above ground, the claims overlap, and the owners of the Ida Elmore Mine and the Golden Chariot Mine both lay claim to any silver in the disputed area. When the rock wall is finally breached, pickaxes give way to pistols and rifles as one hundred miners prepare for battle. When gunfire erupts, the first casualty is John C. Holgate, owner of the Golden Chariot. For the next five days the bloody battle rages on and only comes to end when the territorial governor threatens to dispatch Army troops from Fort Boise to quell the violence. Though the conflict appears to be over, hard feelings spill to the surface, and J. Marion Moore, owner of the Ida Elmore Mine is gunned down in the streets of Silver City. Years later, gunfighter-turned-reporter Bat Masterson tracks down one of the surviving miners to get the real story of the Battle Beneath the Mountain.

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  23. Wild West Chronicles Season 3 Episode 2 - Billy the Kid: Birth of an Outlaw
    8.8/10(21 votes)

    S3:E2

    Teenaged fugitive William Bonney is given a second chance when a kindhearted ranch owner, John Tunstall, offers him a job. Within days, Tunstall becomes a close friend and something of a father figure to young Bonney. But when his new employer is killed in cold blood, Bonney reverts to his criminal ways and vows to seek vengeance. Enraged and once again alone, Bonney faces off with the men who gunned down Tunstall and the bullets begin to fly. Years later, gunfighter-turned-newspaperman Bat Masterson enters the campaign headquarters of congressional candidate Robert Widenmann, who also worked for Tunstall, to find out how a young William Bonney was transformed into the notorious Billy the Kid.

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  24. Wild West Chronicles Season 3 Episode 12 - Annie Oakley & Buffalo Bill's Wild West Showdown
    8.8/10(20 votes)

    S3:E12

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    Director:Unknown
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  25. Wild West Chronicles Season 4 Episode 4 - Ada Curnutt U.S. Deputy Marshal
    8.8/10(11 votes)

    S4:E4

    After being sworn in as one of Oklahoma's first female deputy marshals, Ada Curnutt volunteers to track down two killers-turned-counterfeiters and concocts a cunning plan to bring them to justice without using a gun.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Bat Masterson Leaves the West" is the best rated episode of "Wild West Chronicles". It scored 9.6/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/4/2024. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Willie Kennard Makes His Mark in History".