Wagon Train
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 as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
Season 8 Episodes
Ex-Marshal Bob Stuart and his new wife are among three wagons joining Chris Hale's wagon train. Scout Cooper Smith is as…
Hide hunters, hunters who kill buffalo for their hides only, have temporarily joined up with the wagon train. One of the…
John Gillman being chased and shot in the leg by a posse escapes via a river. He is found downriver nearly passes out by…
Bill accompanies Barnaby to Sam Race's tent city of "entertainers", where a girl from the train that Barnaby likes has t…
Cooper Smith is on his way to the town of Washburn to pick up long awaited mail for the wagon train when he stumbles upo…
Brian Conlin walks into Hale's camp, delirious and dehydrated. After he recovers, he leads Coop to his group of Irish im…
Coop falls for a young half-Indian woman wandering alone in the wilderness. He brings her to the wagon train, where Hale…
Hale is unable to take everybody on the next phase and has to turn down some of those applying. One is Ben Campbell, an …
Spoiled Nancy Styles, claiming to be the daughter of the owner of the company that owns the wagon train, is determined t…
A blind man called Sangre has joined the wagon train along with his guide. He is actually Coop's boyhood blood brother R…
With Hawks ill and Comanches threatening to attack, an Army troop meets up with the wagon train. The Indians appear to g…
A little girl, crying each night, appears to be a ghost from The Donner Party. Many people hear her, but she appears eac…
Charlie has finally found someone else who shares his dream of man being able to fly, henpecked inventor Hector Heathert…
While out looking for water Coop and Charlie are stopped by a gang of five, including two women, who are on the run afte…
Hale finds his old flame Chottsie Gubenheimer working in a gambling house and in an argument with the owner, so he asks…
Wanda Snow has several times seen events before they have happened, causing several people on the wagon train to accuse …
Coop and Charlie ride into a small village for supplies finding it deserted. There is an Indian who stays hidden and lat…
The wagon train comes across old Jamison Hershey and Herman, his 3000 pound Belgian horse. The old man has made it safel…
Don Brooke is desperate for money for his pregnant wife Bonnie, who's condition is too delicate for the long trip withou…
Teacher Mary Lee McIntosh refuses to pay what she feels is an excessive fee to join the wagon train, so she decides inst…
Tough and headstrong female ferryboat captain Samantha Stewart is asked by her son Johnny and his bride to accompany the…
Despite the advice of some Coop decides to visit former girlfriend Eloise Blee, but finds Eloise gone, and instead winds…
Barnaby is forced to shot and kill a boy his own age who took a woman and her daughters hostage. He is cleared of any wr…
A white renegade rides into the wagon train camp with an Indian girl tied to a rope and forced to walk without food or w…
Coop tells Bill the story of the Earp brothers and the Silver Lady, a woman who was encased in a coffin of sliver coins …
The series' final episode begins and ends with the two characters who stayed with it from beginning to end, as Charlie t…
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